San Francisco Cable Cars Are BACK - Lombard Street / Fishermans Wharf / Pier 39 / Boudin & Much MORE
San Francisco Sites August 2021
Transcript
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welcome everyone adam the woo here as a
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recording of this august 2nd
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2021. listen closely
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that is a trolley car
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we have made it san francisco
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your old stomping grounds you lived here
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for a number of years
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my home this is your this is your home
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you are back you're gonna show me around
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yesterday august 1st was your birthday
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we traveled up to the james dean spots
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my birthday is august 10th we will be
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here
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up until a couple days before that give
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or take
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no real super game plan over this is
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kind of our
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my birthday and your birthday in between
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wedged
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a little bit collaboration collaboration
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vacation whatever you want to call it
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and you're going to show me around some
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of the sights the sounds
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and the ambiance of san francisco and
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the food and the food
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we're going to do a lot of that today i
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would like to ride the trolley you were
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saying you've never
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in all the time you lived here back in
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the day you never rode the trolley you
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said it's too
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touristy well you just pay to get on it
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so i never use my bus
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like yeah i just never done it so i'm
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gonna i'm gonna
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we're gonna i'm gonna convince you to go
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on the trolley which you've never done
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i've never done it either and then from
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there just kind of see where the wind
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blows and it is very windy and very cool
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i'm wearing a hoodie which is kind of a
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neat mess you got mickey mouse
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and leather face here combined those are
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your personalities
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there's a guy doing push-ups over there
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on no he was doing pull-ups
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on the walk signal getting fit there's
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something happening
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join me shall you
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the pair of sunglasses i've been using
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broke last night so i ended up buying
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another one
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today i think these were like ten
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dollars got him at the
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kind of one of the stores around nothing
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too fancy
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he'll do the trick at 9 30 this is the
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this is the congregation of folks who
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have lined up
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you were just mentioning to me that
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usually it's a lot longer this it's like
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a
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three or four hour wait sometimes right
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yeah it can't be so lengthy it goes up
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the block
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like the whole block of people sometimes
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you're saying sometimes it stretches all
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the way down that way
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now what will happen is number 17 over
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here will
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go over to this section and it'll spin
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it around
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oh there we go there's a little example
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okay that's where we're standing right
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there right yeah really great okay we're
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right there what happens is a trolley
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comes down
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does a 360 and then they manually push
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it back onto the track
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and then you go up the hill so we get to
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witness that we're getting pretty lucky
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we're having we're having some pretty
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good luck we acquired on if you need to
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buy pre-purchased tickets
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the cable cars have just returned yeah
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they just came back
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up and running there's quite a bit of
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news media around i'm noticing there's
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some cameras around maybe yesterday was
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the first day cause we didn't see anyone
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on it they were testing it and now the
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second day of august
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which we checked in we checked into a
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place around here last night
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kind of wandered around off-camera we're
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filming any videos we did the james dean
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thing
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and we saw them testing it so this must
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be this must be the first day august
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august 2nd yes and it's free
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mystery go obviously it's free for the
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most of august i think there was a good
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reason to be born in this month oh yeah
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besides being a leader as you can see
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a lot of a lot of camera presence over
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here documenting this historic occasion
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oh this is so cool what are the odds
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this wasn't even planned
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we are witnessing the return of the
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trolleys
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okay now he over here he like kind of
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pulls this little mechanism up oh
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so it's all manual he unlatches that and
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now this this reminds me of the amp the
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cars at disney springs where they
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spin it around to go back in the water
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take a look at that
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that is really cool
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so yeah it's all manual see they kind of
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grabbing onto the side there
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spinning the trolley around
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oh look wow
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you gotta put your back into it
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okay no drinks no food and drink allowed
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now they spin it back
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wow
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and there's another oh they're crossing
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over got both of them crossing over
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there
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and that's what market street nice look
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at those over there oh there's another
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there's also some buses but also run
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with the wires
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across the top take a look at this
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testing in
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progress municipal rail work
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all right okay it's normally eight
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dollars it's happening
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dang cool
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wow no traffic allowed from this section
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any of the red section here
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obviously going downhill those cars are
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in the middle section
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only trolleys allowed but that was steep
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look at this little mechanism right over
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here like this little like
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kind of handcraft
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i don't here know where this drops off
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any idea where it drops off it drops off
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okay so we're gonna go
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oh so cool so this is the historic
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lombard street wow
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yes
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and then golden gate is rumored that the
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top of it is supposed to look like the
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tip of a fire hose
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because the lady's husband who built it
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she put that for her um secret lover wow
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oh and you can walk down lombard yeah
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they're not using it to drive normally
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you have to pay to drive down the street
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wow that was so cool
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so what would be the next kind of like
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pivotal place that you that i should see
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in this area once we start walking down
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lombard once we're done with lumbar then
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we'll walk to the pier
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walk over to the pier yeah oh there's a
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car trying to get through i guess they
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are oh what is this thing
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too look at this
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i need one oh okay traffic tickets
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i guess you do you can drive down
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lombard
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this gentleman's getting a great photo
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right there that's a good spot right
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that's good
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heading down right now i like you guys
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you're in san francisco you're wearing
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your bell bottoms
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very very nice and you got the so this
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is like a little groove so you don't
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slip on this but there's also
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the little stairs here sebastian coming
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up
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the other way the other side okay now
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we're going back to this now streak
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more into steps here if you had one of
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these apartments you would definitely
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see
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a lot of tourists on a daily basis
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standing outside your window taking
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photos
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they got the camera out documenting the
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posterity they're going down lombard
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very windy street he lived right there
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getting home would not be the easiest
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this is probably why cars are frowned
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upon
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going down here because they lose
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control and smash into the sides
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just contemplating what the rent through
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here would be for
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for a two bedroom if you had to guess
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what what would it rent in this area
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which is called knob hill what would
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what would a and
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what would a nob hill apartment like a
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two bedroom apartment cost per month if
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you would have been it you think
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um at least eight eight thousand a month
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with this view even more cause a lot of
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these are like million dollar homes
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wow eight thousand a month that's
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probably lowballing it
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i guess that's not even accounting for
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the new brake pads you gotta forget on a
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on a yearly basis all right get this for
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posterity here
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bottom of lombard did it
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except we didn't go up and we walked
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down much easier
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than trotting up the hills
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just informed by natalie about this
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little kind of secret garden over here
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on leavenworth
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shakespeare garden she calls it she
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doesn't know if it's officially
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you've never officially heard that
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though right from what i remember i
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think that's what it's called oh
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i heard that but it's just like a cool
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little secret garden i would call this
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shakespeare garden if i was
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in this area and it's open to the public
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anyone can walk in here
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and do some contemplating some thinking
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rest their weary bones from all the
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walking up and down the hills
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uh-oh being watched from the rooftops
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got a nice little bird's eye from up
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there don't you
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now the station of the ones we were on
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would have
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ended right here at
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fisherman's wharf oh a nice touch with
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the seagulls
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squawking in the background off in the
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distance
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golden gate bridge
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and from this view i'm gonna head over
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to
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girodelli square i kind of want a coffee
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is it pronounced giardelli or
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ghirardelli
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ghirardelli ghirardelli
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now is this the first one the very first
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and there's quite a few around town
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and of course i've been to the one on
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hollywood boulevard the better one at
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dca
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but this is the first one it is massive
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and of course with everything in this
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area a lot of
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a lot of walking and stairs are involved
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get my steps up hold up they are
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preparing
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our piping hot caffeinated beverage here
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at foghorn
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coffee which is located next to the
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chocolate building dated 1911 according
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to that sign at the
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tippy top up there and the woolen mill
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back in the 1860s is now the marketplace
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i went with the hazelnut latte you went
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with the
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uh dirty chai tea dirty chai tea i
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really like how beautiful this looks
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i say i say i say boy
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remember foghorn the corn yeah
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that's a really bad invitation too
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oh very interesting there are people out
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there swimming around
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in the water check it out oh there we go
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check this out this is like a tour of
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some sort
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in the little vw bus right here
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doing a little u-turn circling around
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going back up the hill next to the blue
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mermaid
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chowder house you can see the trolleys
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up the top too oh wow take a look at
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that
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that's right that i want to do that at
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some point you know not maybe not this
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trip but at some point i want to do that
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perfect time in there the cable car
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going by
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fisherman's wharf
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some seafood will be on the agenda today
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at some point
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definitely some seafood is on the agenda
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they also do the big bus tours here open
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top
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sit on the top of it as well that's one
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way to get around the city
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there's a submarine right here let's
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take a look at this
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submarine and of course another staple
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of san francisco
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boudin right here on fisherman's wharf
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with the bread conveyor belt it's
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stalled at the moment but when they have
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some fresh bread that will move along
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and you can check it out there's a crab
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there's a piece of bread
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shaped in the form of a crab up there
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the secret to sourdough is an ancient
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method of making bread
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rise using only wild yeast
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present in the local environment caught
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from the air and cultivated with a
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mixture of water
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and flour and you get a little behind
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this well it's not really behind the
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scenes
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it's right here along the walkway they
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do this so you can see how it's all
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prepared
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making all the the bread in there oh is
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that an alligator
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yeah check it out there's an alligator a
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piece of alligator breath
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and a turtle check out the conveyor belt
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with the with the dough going across
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heading towards the oven
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it is a whole set up in here
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oh got some bread even the fire
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department
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picking up some fresh bread
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do not climb on the guardians of the
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gate
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sculpture the sea lions here
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of course pier 39 probably the most
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famous pier
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here in san francisco i feel like one
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day in my life i need to get a vehicle
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like this
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pretty neat it's got the emblem here
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pier 39 of course mine won't say pier 39
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but
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if i ever owned a lot of property i want
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one of these kind of
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just kind of one of these uh just get me
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around
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the neighborhood and to get over to the
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sea lions gotta stroll
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down this touristy section and kind of
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loop back do truly love the vibe here
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it is a lot more laid back i mean it's
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still busy
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but it doesn't have that that l.a
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doesn't have that la vibe might i might
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be making much sense but
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very beautiful a little quieter and more
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laid back
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than los angeles and it's about six
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hours
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five to seven hours depending on how
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fast you drive so it's not if for those
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who have never been to california
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it's kind of similar to going from
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jacksonville florida down to miami
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distance wise give or take they're not
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they're not next to each other
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not a whole lot out today probably
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because of the summer months but
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there are a few down at the end kind of
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frolicking around there
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going in the water nope just curling up
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there huh
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see ya according to this in the
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summertime
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they head to the channel island
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south to mexico
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just stretching enjoying the day
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having a little scratch
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yeah usually every one of these floating
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planks here is full
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hundreds and hundreds of sea lions
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taking a little snoozage now i've often
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asked this about
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orange county california people that are
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from there don't like to call it the oc
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people from san francisco don't really
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care for san fran
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or frisco yeah san fran is like the
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worst
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really gosh so i but i i'm guilty of
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saying it to you
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what's some of the other you got frisco
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frisco
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but usually most just call it the city
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it's just the city the city when someone
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says i'm going to the city
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even when they're not from san francisco
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you know they're talking about san
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francisco
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even a lot of the merch here just says
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the city so you can tell a tourist
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me when someone says where's san fran
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tourist yeah just say the full name
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gonna grab some seafood over here at the
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wharf one of these little pop-up while
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these little stands over here
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i really don't know what to got fresh
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crab we got clam chowder
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have you eaten any of these before i
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mean not all of them you've eaten all of
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them
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what would be your suggestion um
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i also like this one nyx lighthouse okay
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we're gonna go with
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nick's lighthouse and they do have
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outdoor seating but it's very very sunny
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out here in all of them
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they said they do have indoor seating so
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i guess we could go go inside and eat
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number five that's the name of the stand
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number five
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is what are you seating in here thank
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you
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this is awesome look at the theming all
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through here look at the chandeliers
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they look like little
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seashells as well oh look at this
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cool i believe i'm gonna get the lobster
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bisque with crackers
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bowl not in the bread bowl then i'm also
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gonna get a
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seasonal green salad with
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base shrimp that's what i'm gonna get
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you know what you're gonna get
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yeah got a half dozen of the
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blue blue point oysters and i'm gonna
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get a lobster roll
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and a lobster roll there we go nice
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lobster roll is
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over there okay
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we've decided just gotta work go for it
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give me that give me the little
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give me the lemon squeeze over here on
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top of there almost like a commercial
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this is only the second time in my
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entire life slurp it you have to slip it
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in the shop
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okay what's the word brimey
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very very ocean very oceanic i don't
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dislike it but i'm not saying i like it
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it's not bad though you obviously like
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it
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i love words
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now got some bread here with some
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grassland butter
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you can kind of smear all over it i'll
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get the little slices in it and i went
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with the crab
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they call it crab bisque bisque which is
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like a soup
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i opted out of the bread bowl
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and i got this and the salad
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warm oh that's good that's really good
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it's got some some pieces of corn in
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there too
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like a big pile of them
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lobster roll there oh wow there's a lot
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going on in there
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a whole lot of lobster that was good
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nick's lighthouse
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which is number five here on fisherman's
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wharf
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pretty tasty definitely one of my
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favorite spots in the city
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or at least on the pier now gonna walk
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from pier 39
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down to pier 31 about a two mile stroll
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passing by pier 39 again
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and there are some very colorful sea
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lions here
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the aquarium by the bay and there is a
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version of bruce up there
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kind of dangling from that two-ton
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little like holder so it's too tight oh
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he's swaying you know what i don't think
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he's really two tons because
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unless he's unless that's a really like
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a hurricane gale force wind
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swaying back and forth there probably
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like the universal backlot tour made of
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plastic
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i stand corrected it was not pier 31 i
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was thinking of
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we're walking down to pier one that's
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why it is two miles
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says you are here we still got a way to
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go past
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nine and then you can see it yeah it's
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just the whole
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canopy the trees
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hello pigeons very decent view of
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downtown
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from the san galassa all the skyscrapers
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and buildings there
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this is pretty neat there is a there's
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kind of like a bowl looking item over
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a little half sphere another half sphere
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over here
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and you can talk and it will echo
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across the sound waves making my way
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over to the little sphere here
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oh my gosh i can hear you hello wow
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is that cool that is so cool it's like
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we're standing next to each other
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give me a wave and say hi i'm waving
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hello i'm waving back
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say something a little louder like hello
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it's a little louder
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wow that is neat that's so cool i can
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hear you so clearly
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i try a little whistle
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give me a give me a give me a sound
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effect of some sort
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um
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it's pretty dang cool we did it
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that is neat you're way over there
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like a good 30 yards
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i would have never known about that if
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you hadn't brought it up yeah they used
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to have it installed
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closer downtown to promote the
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exploratorium and then they moved them
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down here
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got a ferry boat across the way
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the horn blower bell san francisco bell
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and across the the bay bridge on the
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other shore is oakland
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and treasure island that's treasure
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island yep
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so the bay bridge goes right through
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treasure island yep and then there's the
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newer bridge right well newer it's like
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five years new is right on the other
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side too
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and then you get into berkeley and
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oakland on that side so berkeley's over
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this is kind of the bridge from the
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graduate he drove that way but he was
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going to san francisco not
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yeah okay double decker bridge traffic
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on the bottom
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is heading over to berkeley traffic on
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the top is going to san francisco
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more or less
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incoming the f down market street
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oh yeah that's the one that looks like
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the taxi almost
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i'm getting ready to get on this one
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number one zero five seven
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we're in the we're in the back of the
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bus
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and in order to get on here we had to
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use the clipper card
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you load some money on this and this is
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how you get around we're moving
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they do not wait long very efficient
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this is pretty neat
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it runs off of electricity the electric
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wires go just over the top of the
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transportation device up and down the
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roads
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the windows are open so you get a nice
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little breeze through here
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yeah there's plenty of elbow room not a
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lot of people on this particular one
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it's called the muni muni
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the name for the transportation through
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the city yeah all the underground and
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above
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here's one of the photos from the
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surveillance footage
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patty hearst inside there his family
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might still or did own this building
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doing a little construction on it
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you pull up the other photo the close-up
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photo
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so she just crossed the street over
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what year was that do you have any idea
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could you look it up real quick
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1974. 1974. the name of this building is
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the hound
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staircases
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and straight ahead there it's dragon
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interesting to chinatown
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just waiting for the cross signal to
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change walk over
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i really like this this old neon here
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called the empress jewelry and fine arts
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and that is so cool this whole area
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through here is pretty neat
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here's another one i really like golden
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star radio that old neon there
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that is old school all rusted out
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beautiful wow sacramento street is like
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straight up look at that
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serious angle gonna walk through the
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tunnel now right
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right oh we're gonna go up the stairs up
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yeah nice
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okay yeah i'll see some stairs from here
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i mean we can walk that signage up there
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says
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quiet through the tunnel
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i believe you're not supposed to like
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talk the horns so we could take the
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stairs
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or we could just walk through it
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nope one time
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and gonna jump out at union square
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pretty long tunnel very long time oh
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not following the no honking rule
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been doing quite a bit of walking
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getting the steps in worked up a little
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bit of a thirst got a strawberry
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acai refresher you got uh
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tea cheers yes now we're almost over to
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union square
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put some steps in i feel like i'm
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starting to get my bearings a little bit
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though
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yeah not as good as you because you know
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your way around really well i would be
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lost but
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i'm starting to do it a little bit
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better since this morning i've got kind
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of getting getting my bearings
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the address on either these apartments
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or this hotel up here
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are there apartments all right there are
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three
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sixes and that's the name of it too
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looking at the awning
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probably lives there also passing by
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hotel
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vertigo and if you've seen the film
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classic film from back in the day you
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with me because this is a this is where
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the filming locations took place
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you would say a hitchcock would be
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proud of how much i walk today
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there are some signatures here in hand
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prints in the pavement in front of the
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hotel diva as well got stevie wonder
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angelica houston tony curtis
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scribbled in some like it hot we've got
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devo
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right here as well even danny glover
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is etched right in here joan rivers back
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in 2007. you can see the shade
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kind of overpassing it as well
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pretty neat yeah that is pretty neat
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years of the world's largest
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or longest running the phantom
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which took place right over here at this
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theater probably that one oh that one
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that one there okay
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makes sense there you go the geary
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theater
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pretty cool oh almost looks like a red
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carpet they rolled out the red carpet
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but in fact
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it's just a do not drive zone
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buses only yeah these handprints just
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pass by notice
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who the heck are these these hand prints
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here very cool
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carol channing okay and that's going to
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do it for today
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well it just changed i did 18 626 steps
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today
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not counting the elevation up and down
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the hills just between
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i don't know between 9 30 a.m and 3 p.m
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that's a lot in a short time frame like
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that you can see the dip down
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we were having the seafood there on the
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on the wharf at the at the waterway
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more san francisco in the following days
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i'll see you the next video
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the vlog this right here is a tow away
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so
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just just saying the vlog
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is over