Closed Malls & Theme Park of Buffalo NY / Toxic Chemical Neighborhood of Love Canal In Niagra Falls
Buffalo & Niagra Falls NY
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welcome everyone
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adam the woo here as a recording of the
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saturday june 25th 2022. i am really
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excited the fact that i am about to
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consume a piping hot caffeinated
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beverage of the tim horton's persuasion
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it has been a years
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not eight years but
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years
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since i have had didn't get any timbits
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just a coffee
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when i was in a band years ago toured
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through canada and this is
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canada's
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favorite coffee or most popular coffee
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if you pretty much look on every corner
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there is a tim hortons except i am not
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in canada at the moment i am right on
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well pretty close to the
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the country line
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oh that's good oh my gosh that's good
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and there's a dunkin donuts right there
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which is funny because i always compare
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the two
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i think donkeys
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i just made that up has
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similar type of coffee
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but when they're side by side i gotta go
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with tim hortons
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i left my hotel very early this morning
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i've been on interstate 90 all day for
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six or seven hours covered a lot of
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ground before i even picked up the
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camera to start filming i'm inviting you
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to join me
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as i go into buffalo new york
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and i probably will end with niagara
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falls but i will do a bunch of other
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stuff before that join me this has been
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a long intro
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that's so freaking good
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shall you this place has coconut
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macaroons also chocolate covered bananas
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and
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a little sculpture out here
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this lady holding half of a coconut
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i don't know why monty python just you
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take the coconuts
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and you bang them up together
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is she holding a coconut she's holding
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something i think it's a coconut
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there's also a stallion or some other
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sort of maybe maybe it's a chocolate
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covered
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peanut i don't know
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something is being hoisted up there
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in the air towards the ongoing traffic
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that's going by
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and something is laying down here on its
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side
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slumbering oh
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bunny rabbit
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of some yeah i think it's a bunny
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there's a cow over here too
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look out
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i've definitely gotten pretty pretty
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familiar with
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toll roads
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last few states but a lot of toll roads
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that i've been on some are paying cash
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some are paid by mail some are pay
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online it's kind of confusing all right
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i'm now going to check into a hotel it's
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check-in time
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and way here and a friend of mine is
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going to pick me up
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kind of show me around the area
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and i'll be
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riding along with him
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but gonna go check in to the hotel first
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all right i'm now in the passenger seat
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the town of hamburg
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approaching buffalo and nine miles i am
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in the aces adventure mobile right ace's
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adventure is show chauffeuring me around
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yeah is that is that the terminology
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give me the buffalo experience the
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buffaloen except i have no idea where
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we're even going i just want to go to
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niagara falls at some point before the
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end of the evening
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downtown buffalo there's a baseball
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stadium there too home of the bisons
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okay we have found a parking spot this
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is the city of
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niagara falls so we're gonna walk along
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what's the name of this road
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falls avenue all right i'm learning
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something new here tell me tell me what
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was behind you here uh so this is
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remnants of the old rainbow center
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factory outlet mall which is still
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abandoned in somewhat and where we're
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walking right now is where the part of
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the mall in the winter garden used to be
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so this this right here used to be the
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mall inside of the mall yeah we were
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inside this would be where the winter
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garden where the food court uh really
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part of the mall was now on your channel
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you do a lot of you do a lot of mall
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like former malls that's how you know
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about these malls you see the escalator
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right there
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right up there and this says let's fall
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in love was this part of the mall mural
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no i know this is this is where it's
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just says niagara falls
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yep old falls what'd you call it just
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false falls avenue falls avenue old fall
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street pretty close back here in 2013.
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for some reason i seem to remember them
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being a lot more magnificent than this
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when i was here in 2013 i've seen
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times are talking you know sometimes
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your memory does not
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these are the these are the falls right
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yeah sure and there's a little painting
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over there on the wall of course the u.s
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and canadian border is right where is it
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kind of like right where the falls begin
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there's quite a few people down here
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very busy time here yeah it's touristy
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season okay we are here
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you know i think maybe i've been to the
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canvas i don't know if i've ever been to
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the u.s side
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years ago i think i went to where's the
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horseshoe falls in comparison to this
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so
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this is where we're going to be walking
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over to the horseshoe falls are up here
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so that even so here on the u.s side
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they don't even show the canada side
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they're like that doesn't even exist oh
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yeah this water is roaring past
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all the seagulls over there
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so that's the canada side
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yeah i've never been over here on this
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side i've always
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been over on that other side that's
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interesting what's the name of this
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island over here island goat island
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named after goats
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it just has a nickname go like g-o-a-t
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yeah and you were saying you were saying
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as we were walking up there was a car
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stuck in here for like a couple months
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yeah there's a car that plunged over was
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stuck upside down for a few months and
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uh eventually
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so do you think the car was stuck here
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for a couple months and then eventually
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just went over the ledge over there
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eventually worked its way free i got
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stuck in a rock and eventually
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so we're probably down at the bottom of
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the falls i think they pulled it out
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they pulled it out how would you get
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that out
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a whole lot of ingenuity
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right
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all right let's walk down there
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this is awesome i've never seen it from
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this perspective
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just the force of this water
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yeah if you hopped in there
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it would not end well
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how did we get over there
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how fast can you swim
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i i could swim but i could not bat i
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cannot battle these these this rippling
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current
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all those people over there
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okay is that that's not the canada side
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though there that's the u.s side still
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that has to be an amazing overlook
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though
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yeah this is very impressive
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look at the boat down there
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the maid of the mist
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the maiden of the mist
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is it made or made in of the mess
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there's like fruit did you say maiden
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made of the maid the iron maiden for
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this the iron maiden of the myth look
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that's where they board down there
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and then also for like a couple bucks go
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up with that little ledge we should do
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that absolutely
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living on the ledge
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this is awesome
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all those birds over there
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man look at this roaring power of this
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water
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that is incredible okay horseshoe falls
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are right over that way let me zoom in a
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little bit
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so where all that mist is kind of
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popping up his horseshoe falls which is
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where i believe
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superman 2 was filmed
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of course i always have to any place i
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go i have to throw in a little
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little 80s
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early 80s movie trivia superman too when
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clark disappears lois wonders where he
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is also superman swoops in
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right over there
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not from this angle but it's it's over
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there we have to go get a ticket to go
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over here on this ledge
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all right there's a lot more people
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waiting in line for this uh we don't
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really have to go on that little
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overlook i think we got a pretty good
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view as it is already
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have you ever seen the line that long
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before never peak tourist season yeah
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i think we got a pretty good view from
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where we were though
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it's a
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is it a beaver it's a beaver
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a brown that's it is that a beaver or
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gravel i guess a beaver i can't tell i
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think groundhogs are smaller than that
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i don't know it's built
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or it's a gopher
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it's either a gopher a beaver or a
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groundhog but the groundhog is about
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four months too late
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that is amazing
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don't get too close to the water
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the closet is to the falls
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stay away from the water groundhog
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beaver gopher okay we're walking across
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the bridge over to goat island i think
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that's how those people got to the other
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side of the water
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across this bridge
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to goat island okay heading towards cave
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of the winds we are on luna island right
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now i guess goat island this is the
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right is behind us we're heading to luna
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maybe we can see the bridal veil falls
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that'd be cool
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and horseshoe falls you might be able to
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see from here all right you can see
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horseshoe falls
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from the u.s side
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look at this
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glad we follow the signs
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you ever been down to this section for
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my first time so you've only been up to
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the other area right
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so what i was zoomed in earlier was down
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here
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so you just got to walk a little it's
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like probably like a i don't know a
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quarter of a mile half a mile yeah
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kind of perched on that rock right there
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or
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four maybe five seagulls
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there's horseshoe falls
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called that most likely i'm just i would
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imagine because it looks like a
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horseshoe
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look at all that
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mist
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that is
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wow
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it feels like you're like it feels like
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the ground is shaking it's like
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earthquake right
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look at that
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that's a heck of a lot of ponchos down
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there on that boat
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getting some serious romantic vibes
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going on right now of course it was the
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other side the canada side but this is
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kind of get the same vibes there
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man that is right behind
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the left
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imagine the guy who made this concrete
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before the railing was here i'll just
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carry that off the bed yeah just a
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little concrete worker now where we
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originally started was right over there
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those falls
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unbeknownst to us if you just walk away
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and go closer to the horseshoe falls
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over here
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and they even have a trolley that rolls
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through here
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niagara falls state park usa trolley and
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stopped in one of the gift shops here
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let's see if i can find myself a magnet
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i always like to have magnets
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for my fridge maybe i'll get
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maybe i'll get one of these
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kind of like this one oh this is kind of
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neat i like that one
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niagara falls in that here's like the
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logo made my decision and going with the
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throwback
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looking one they sell these bags but i
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think this is frowned upon i don't think
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you can i think you're supposed to go
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over on a barrel or
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walk the tightrope they also have
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stickers
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here as well
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all right we're back over to where the
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old mall was she's some busted out
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windows this is kind of peeking in the
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window of the old mall
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from existence i also bought a shirt i
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bought a niagara falls shirt
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okay hold this real quick let me show
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the show the
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shirt i can get it out here
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this is
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it's almost like a rolling stones
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rolling stones where the water is going
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out of the lips
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right there that's pretty good it was
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like 15 bucks
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all right heading over to
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the love canal
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named after someone with the last name
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of love so it's not a canal
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that you fall in love at
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that's what i thought it was at first
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when you told me about it
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it's got an interesting history
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we'll be over there shortly
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so all through here used to be a bunch
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of houses
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that were torn down
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how many houses are left four maybe
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three four three or four yeah
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see it's all grown over
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so the ground is like what's underground
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is dangerous there are well they stay
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the new york state says they've cleaned
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up a lot of the toxic chemicals okay
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toxic chemicals are under the ground
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like dioxin and things like that yeah
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but to this day it's debatable if it's
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safe or not
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there's a few residents that were told
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to leave but they didn't leave their
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houses are still back here there's one
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of them right up here
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i actually interviewed this lady several
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years ago oh you interviewed her yeah
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it's a lady she's like 85 years old she
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lives there by herself she's like i'm
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not leaving
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her husband passed away and she wanted
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to stay here so
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and people unfortunately come back here
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and this house is abandoned and nobody
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is living in it however when you go by
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at night there is someone has electrical
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cords that are going to the house so i
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suspect that someone is possibly
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squatting
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so you see they've mowed their yard but
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then all this other property
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it's kind of kind of overgrown
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and there's a fenced off area over there
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that the government owns
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that is completely fenced off and it's
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really illegal to walk
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past that fence line because it's very
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dangerous chemical wise
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he said someone's lives on property
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checks the balance right yeah like the
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what the soil and the water quality on
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stuff
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it's just like apocalyptic down here
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just nothing
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it's like an empty suburb right
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kind of like uh centralia sort of yeah
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kind of centrally-ish
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except there's no steam coming up from
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underneath the ground just just couches
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just couches and debris
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i think those are leaves in that bag it
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was kind of
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for a second i was like what's that
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and some companies have leased out the
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land
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you can see here that they're using it
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for storage for their trucking business
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and whatnot yeah
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they're just renting it out so they can
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park their trucks on it
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toxic truckers
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yeah that was like a street that would
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go over to the fenced off area
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people say it'll probably
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never be inhabitable again
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it's kind of like picture oklahoma's
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that way too
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picture oklahoma's is similar to that
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where it's dangerous to
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oh there's a deer a deer just went by
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box of beer toxic deer
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than just a house just another house
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that's
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people just living their lives but that
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was abandoned
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yeah i'm definitely getting some picture
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oklahoma
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look at all that rubble back there look
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at that
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all right that's not safe
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look at that wow it's like a power pole
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that's just
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cut down to
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not off
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yeah that's not that's not very i think
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that's live
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i don't want to find out that's not yet
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i want to go out and touch that
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that's not safe shocking
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shocking
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all right this old mall
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has seen better days it's been closed
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for how many years 20 years
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yeah 20 years this mall has been closed
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now on your channel aces adventure
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adventures yeah aces adventures
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so you go on more than one adventure oh
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yeah you do a lot of mall stuff
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like empty malls and whatnot but you've
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never been in this one no so this is
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kind of like your
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i'll say a bucket list but this is
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something you really want to get into
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yeah i always try to do it with
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permission so i just wait until
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commissions just waiting for permission
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one day you'll be in this mall yeah
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i'll have to tune in if that ever
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happens so this is a pretty cool retro
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looking mall
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this is the old sears right here what's
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the name of this mall uh the summit mall
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the summit mall
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there you go there's a
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concert hall right there
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this is the old sears
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there's like three types of malls i
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found
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thriving
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completely closed
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or ones that only have
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two stores open those are the three
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levels of malls this would be under a
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closed mall
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nothing's open
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i like the ones that have one store and
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you can walk around an empty mall
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those are kind of the fun ones
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it feels like it's closed
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it feels like it's closed but you're
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allowed in you have permission to get in
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and they used to have a bus stop at the
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other end of the parking lot
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right over there the bus stop has been
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spray painted over
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no bus stop here anymore well just a
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grill
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just a grill in there it's a grill in
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the
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where the bus stop was
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another painful
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oh there is a pay phone over there
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well just the shell the skeleton of the
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pay phone
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just imagine some of the locals taking
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the bus getting dropped off here going
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doing some shopping at the mall
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after the mall closed this bus station
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ran for a while they eventually just
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gave up on it
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the bon ton
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you see someone has tried to get in that
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window there there's a piece of wood
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over the front
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that's what you'd call a label scar
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a label scar that's a terminology for
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your front coat
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a label scar i like that
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now there's an open active water park
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on this property
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next to
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a place
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that was called fantasy island a theme
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park that has since closed down
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and is going to be reopening but there
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is no tentative date on when that will
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happen
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but you can see the windows here for the
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ticket booths were busted out
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the good news is
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all this
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well the broken glass is not good news
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but all this
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at some point
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will be reopened this theme park a
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little well amusement park let's call it
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and it's all fenced off it can't go over
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the fence
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but you can kind of take a peek through
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and see where the train ride went by
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some of the theming
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through there as well
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and the front and mission gates with the
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turnstiles
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do you ever go here back in the day
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years ago yeah
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when you were a youth
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i was like a little ace
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so give me the run down this is going to
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reopen
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uh yeah so the water park is open first
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and then they're going to slowly work on
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this and hopefully get this going within
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a year within a year within a year or so
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yeah and peeking through the fence you
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can see the roller coaster
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over there and some of the
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roller coaster
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ride vehicles are kind of tucked away
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over in the parking lot over here can't
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walk over here past this fence line but
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can walk over and look at the ride
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vehicles there in the
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open accessible lot where we parked yeah
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the entire coaster is here completely
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unassembled you see the ride track the
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ride vehicles the name of it is the
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serpent
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so if this ever reopens i'm gonna have
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to come revisit and ride the serpent
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when it's finally put back together
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whenever the heck that will be yeah this
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is pretty awesome this pirate has like
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something jabbed through either side of
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his earlobes
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right here
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so kind of like that is awesome look at
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that
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oh yeah this is a totally
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a shark head shark mouth
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shark mouth
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there's some fish and dolphins down
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there too
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oh i have big the foot you have a little
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tree
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air freshener
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i'm going over this bridge
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which is a pretty cool looking bridge
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all right gonna get a bite to eat here
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at down right at downtown
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dino bbq it's in the old universal
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in universal international building
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which is kind of interesting what's the
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history on the universal international
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building oh this is where they used to
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store silent films this was their
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warehouse where all the silent film
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reels would be stored back in the day
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definitely has that old kind of
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hollywood style vibe with the
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architecture there like the i should
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consider this like kind of art deco kind
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of sort of sort of yeah
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you got the globe universal
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international
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gosh how long has been
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even been called that it's been a long
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time
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and then up top you got the dino holding
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a plate of ribs or something
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and then a pig here on the front
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little does the pig realize should also
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point out that it's kind of confusing
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because it says you know people are
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probably wondering is this a barbecue
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place or a universal
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enter
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so enter that you enter through here but
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it's spelled up top with an i because
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supposed to be international
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that's uh you know that's the i-n-t-e-r
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not e-n-t-e-r
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and then
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inside they're stepping inside i wonder
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if it looks anything like how it did
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back in the day does it look more like a
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barbecue place inside
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a little bit of both a little bit of a
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mixture of
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kind of the new times of the bbq joint
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old time with the universal
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international silent film storage
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facility
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inside
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it's barbecue time and also discovered
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that the exterior of this building did
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not always look like this when the
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barbecue place bought the property they
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started renovating it
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they took the outer shell the outer
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shell was covered up
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with the universal international so they
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decided to leave it this way but found
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some old photos and it was completely
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enclosed and covered up you couldn't
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even tell that this is where this was
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here so really glad that the dino
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barbecue left it like this i ended up
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getting a few things i got an appetizer
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of
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some deviled eggs that were like a
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little bit spicy and then i ended up
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getting
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my entree which was a pulled pork
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sandwich i really like the bread on it
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and i got some mac and cheese
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and mashed potatoes and gravy what'd you
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end up getting i got the dino burger the
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dino burger what's the dino burger uh
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it's actually pieces of a stegosaurus
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it's just just like an angus
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cheeseburger an angus cheeseburger the
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food was really good and the sun's
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slowly starting to set
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walking over here to the to shae's
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buffalo theater look at this old neon
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this is a thing of beauty
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yeah this is awesome
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there's an event going on
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tonight as well
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okay this is awesome i see a lot of
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these old neon signs that are
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kind of decomposing and falling apart
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this thing in full working order all
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right we're walking inside
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just to kind of get a
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look inside the
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uh
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yeah we're not allowed to walk past here
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but look at the
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ticket booth here and everything
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the old doors
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oh wow look at that there's chandeliers
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up there
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this is great
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that's definitely a style from the 80s
27:01
that like on a slanted glass roof like
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this bank here on the corner of maine
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and huron
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is pretty impressive
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what's the building behind it over there
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to the side that's the electric tower
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the electric tower it looks like a spark
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plug yeah kind of sort of sorta kinda
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looks like a spark plug
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look at this bank buffalo savings bank
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that's something else
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does have a very vintage look to it
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got city hall down there at the end
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so here's another tim hortons you were
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just telling me a fun fact how many tim
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hortons are there in the buffalo area
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over 200 200
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tim hortons just in the buffalo area
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that's a lot of timbits
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that's a lot this is another former mall
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the main place mall
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closed this was a walkway from the mall
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to the other building uh yes this was an
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am a's department store
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closed for many many years look at this
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walkway over the train tracks that is
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awesome
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i'm liking the ambiance here of this
28:39
light the sound this light is making
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look there's the there's lady liberty up
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there
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statue of liberty up on top of the
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building there's two of them
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there's two of them there's one there's
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one on each end
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i'm wondering what this little crow's
28:52
nest is over here in front of this
28:54
building next to the train station
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there's like a little kind of a
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pirate ship looking crow's nest on top
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of a
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what is that
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all right i'm seeing both of them up
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there now
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but this has me very curious like what
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this was there is
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that's gonna do it for today
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see the next video the vlog