A Cold & Very Windy Day In Downtown Milwaukee -Exploring Empty Riverwalk / Bronze Fonz To Third Ward
Milwaukee April 2024
Transcript
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today's adventure brings me to
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downtown Milwaukee Wisconsin as the
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recording of this Sunday April 28th
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2024 it is cool it is crisp it is
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overcast it is somewhat raining a little
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dreary and
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cold and I'm going to start off with my
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downtown
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wanderings by getting a coffee over here
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at the Stone Creek coffee and look up
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top also should mention is very very
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very very
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windy can't stress that enough it's
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Gusty welcome everyone ad of the woo
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here my hair is was it was somewhat Ked
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now it's unkempt it unkempt or up
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unkempt either way the wind has kind of
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tossed it around a little bit so it's
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not someone's yelling at me walking up I
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ended up having to go to the store and
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purchase this I went the last few days
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was in SoCal it got a little cool and
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crisp did not need to get a hoodie I
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kind of was probably could have worn one
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and not been uncomfortable but didn't
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thought I could get here and get away
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with not having one this is needed and
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it even has a little top portion on can
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put it on like that if I so choose
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coffee first and I'm just going to walk
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around downtown have no game plan today
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whatsoever except
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downtown walking join me good to have
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you here probably don't need these on
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either probably don't need the
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sunglasses join me shall you what's
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that not sure what he was saying okay
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this is called the bone shaker and I
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asked the
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Barista she said uh it doesn't have any
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extra caffeine it's just our light blend
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but the light blend that does it has
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normal caffeine which is fine but I was
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thinking man maybe I get a little extra
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kick with the bone shaker I guess their
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bone shaker is just their light blend I
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like light Blend
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Coffee I me I'll drink Starbucks if
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that's more I mean they have a blonde
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roast but usually I prefer you know like
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Duncan or Tim Horton has a light blend
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so I'm thinking that's this is kind of
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like that woo yeah it's
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Rusty okay it's
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good it's good say it's great just kind
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of it's medium grade
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coffee it does have a nice aftertaste to
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it though okay step up above that forget
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what I said that's a nice
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aftertaste I could probably wear gloves
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right now and it would feel
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good but they don't have any gloves
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I what the temperature is so look it up
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I'm going to do my best to kind of
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protect the microphone with my hand to
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show this fire hydrant here it's all
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colorful cuz it is
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windy windy oh it's got
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raining that's what that noise is like a
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heating duck maybe there's an
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underground Subway
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here I don't know that's the first thing
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I thought of I I don't know for
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certain see what I can find definitely a
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lot of old buildings down here this is a
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mattress place oh street car tracks
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ahead you'll see sides like that too of
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them and also look at this retro signage
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up here
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saved Factory to you there's a mattress
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there's a mattress mascot right there I
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like it the postal workers union always
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like these
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glass type of
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Windows old
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buildings foggy out here too it looks
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beautiful but it is the hands are
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cold oh this is
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interesting it looks like uh a
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tusked not a cow Mammoth like a woolly
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mammoth this is also interesting so for
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midnight to 6:00 a.m. you can't walk
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over there but because it is not during
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those hours going take a little bit of a
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closer Peak over here okay this is
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called the
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MK Mastadon it says it right here on the
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side it's like a heater of some sort the
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MK mastadon
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also known as
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Rusty Macedon were D to Wisconsin
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Wisconsin in the last ice AG oh there
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goes one of the transportation devices
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through there that's what the tracks are
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laid down there
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for this is dedicated back to life last
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year in 2023 so it's brand new life-size
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Recreation weighs 22,000 lb was born in
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Milwaukee as a boiler at the
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100-year-old nun Bush shoe factory not
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quite as old as a real Mastadon but is a
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steel
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Mastadon nonetheless look at those
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tusks love it that is pretty neat I
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always like lawn art of sorts like that
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so it's kind of cool kind of cool to see
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it he's got to be
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cool this gentleman has been riding up
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and down the side of the street he
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passed me earlier going the other way
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now was going back the other way looks
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pretty neat from this direction too I
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guess also during the day they have
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these grills out here so you can
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barbecue and do your
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thing it's a little public
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fog I like these Big Bay elephant style
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doors right here as
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well kind of neat
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looking tell this thing is very sturdy
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and these doors bit for a
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while it's always nice going to a city
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I'm not really familiar with I've been
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to Milwaukee before but it's been a heck
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of a long time and to be honest I don't
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even recall what I did if anything it is
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nice just exploring with no real game
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plan place you're not real familiar
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with guess they decided to put like a
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bag over the top of it
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maybe the parking meters are a little
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chilly too they needed a little need to
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get bundled up also this hotel right
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here has very goldish Windows look how
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gold those windows are that's awesome
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lit up Marquee there the
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Warner yeah check that out that's
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cool and walk over there all right it's
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interesting I looked it up real quick
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and Warner Brothers in fact is the
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reason it's called the Warner Theater at
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least according to the article I read
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they invested a ton of money and they
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had a lot of Their Stars show up here to
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open it I had no
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idea there was an Affiliated place not
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anymore but originally started by the
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Warner Brother company here in
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Milwaukee more you know got a little
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ghost sign up there for the hotel
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Wisconsin guest room suites Apartments
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meeting rooms
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okay there's a little sculpture
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here see these are officer no
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they're we got some Popeye's Chicken
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right there in honor of the men and
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women who delivered for America rain SLE
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and sucas for the US Postal
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Service tribute to their Union National
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Association of letter carriers
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I'll deliver it in this got to hand it
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to
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him right here along the Riverwalk it
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looks like there's a yeah there is a
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little river walk right
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here dang this reminds me of Chicago so
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much
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look at that users famous sausages up
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there that's pretty
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good also spilled my coffee on me I was
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throwing it away this is probably not
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the the best Hue of a jacket I just got
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this was got the store is pretty
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inexpensive was like 15
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bucks so probably won't keep it but I
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got a little I got a little stained it
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up got a seagull flying by
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there some boats down in that section
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Milwaukee was the fictional setting for
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quite well not really fictional but the
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setting for some shows that were based
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in Milwaukee that were filmed
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elsewhere when you think of
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Milwaukee think of lever and surely and
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happy
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days and when you think of Happy Days
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think of this character that the great
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Henry Winkler created
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Hey the
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fs look at
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this there Henry wikler in sculpture
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form here The Fawns there is no shark
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down here that he's jumping he's given
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the double thumbs up he's giving it a
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big thumbs
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up the bronze
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fawns right there that
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cool
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hey sit on it poy sit on it oh check
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this out Henry wiler's been down here to
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see it did a quick little search there
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he is got his hand around himself love
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it I like how they added on that parking
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structure they have a little
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concrete section of it it looks like the
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skyline to kind of blend in with a
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partial of the old
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Skyline that's free parking right up
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there way up there that's a long way to
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go though for free
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parking so the National Registry of
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historic places back in 1918 this
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Outdoor
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Cafe speaking of lever and Shirley next
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to the paps theater there is that
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iconic I almost I guess it's like the
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the clock tower of City Hall that could
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be seen prominently in the intro of
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lever and Shirley I don't see the sign
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up there anymore used to be a
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sign up on the side that it zoomed in
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really quick likeon I don't see it up
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there on the clock tower anymore yeah I
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used to say welcome Milwaukee visitors
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and for one reason or another it's not
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up there anymore I'm sure over time they
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took it down it' be kind of neat if it
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was still up there I'm sure a lot of
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people recognize that from the show but
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20 24 it's not up there anymore I'm
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standing here at the base of the very
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foggy kind of hard to see Clock Tower
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and I almost tripped because the
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concrete was not completely level and
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then I thought oh there's like some
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Footprints down here that are some
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someone famous no it's just someone
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stuck their foot there when they were
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when they were putting this fresh thing
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here this is not
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like this is not hit weeker
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footprint at least I don't think it is
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maybe it is maybe Henry Winker walked
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around the block and was like oh there's
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wet
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cement probably not but maybe who knows
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that maybe maybe you never know what the
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fonts hey now this is an interesting art
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installation right here I thought maybe
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it was like a camera lens or something
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but I can't really tell what it is like
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a big rubber pipe says watch your step
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down here it's illuminated by these
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little red lights watch your step it in
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the middle there's a tree trunk and then
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it kind of splits off like a fork in the
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a fork in the pipe here
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and it's not too busy down here because
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as I'm filming this it's a
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Sunday car's going over the bridge is
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what that sound
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is kind of thinking I might go get one
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of those famous sausages that they're
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open today
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a lot of art installations this is
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called SS
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core by Robert
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smart there's a goose down
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there clock is telling correct time got
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a little later start today cuz yesterday
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was quite the Fiasco with getting
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here had a
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long flight
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day didn't get into town till about 3:
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got to my hotel around
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4: went to sleep around 4:30 or
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1674 wow that's 300 years before I was
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even
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born this might be Father Marquette over
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over
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here I believe it
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him I stepped inside inside this little
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Alco to a hotel at some
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interesting presidential history inside
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here it's kind of echoey too because I'm
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kind of in this little Alco area back in
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1912 John shrank a
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bartender from New York attempted
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assassination on Theodore
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Roosevelt a candidate for president at
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the time during a visit to
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Milwaukee pretty wild happened right
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here in this
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spot now I don't see this building here
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anymore I think maybe they've torn the
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building down or repurposed it or re
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redesigned it says it look the same
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outside at least from what I can tell
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but on this spot October 14th 1912 there
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was an attempt made upon the life of
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Theodore
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Roosevelt insane
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man the Milwaukee
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Sentinel that is really
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interesting doctors decided to leave the
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bullet in Roosevelt's chest for the
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present
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then we'll go outside to see if that
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still looks the
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same it was the
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hotel Kurt Patrick
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gilpatrick according to what the front
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of that photo looks like all right it
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definitely does not look the same that
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look looks like an old building but
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where I just was is now this modern
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style hotel but the building the photo I
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just showed was right there on that
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corner just stumbled on this as I was
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walking down the road here right next to
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the little hotel where I just was the
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birthplace of the American leag of
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course of Tampa Bay Razer in the
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American League East the Republican
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house a hotel that stood on the site up
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to 1961 was the was the birthplace of
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baseball's American League on the night
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of March 5th 1900 Milwaukee attorney
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Henry CA and his brother Matt Connie
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Mack ban Johnson and kamsky Charles
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kamsky gathered in 185 in defiance of
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the existing national
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league this is where it all started the
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Chicago White stockings later the white
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socks were Incorporated and the League's
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eight teams of line were complete after
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the 1900 season the league completely
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reorganized and Baltimore which are the
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Orioles Boston which are the Red Sox
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Philadelphia which are the Phillies
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which are
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not in the AL East and Washington DC and
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archived Major League status
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interesting very interesting I had I had
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no idea I just happened to be walking by
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this and I was like what the heck
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crossing over State Street onto King
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Street I think this is Martin Luther yep
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Martin Luther King Street said King but
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then I see the MLK underneath it kind of
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a lot of old buildings through here also
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kind of interesting I know a lot of the
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places down here are not open because it
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is the Sunday as I'm walking around I'm
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curious to see if users or you
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users will be open maybe and if there's
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not there's probably some other places
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there's a Milwaukee broad house right
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over there there's the oak
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barrel and here is the signage for users
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right there does not appear to be
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open I can peek in the window and get a
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little look here take a look oh here we
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go do not think that they're open fine
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sausage since
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1880 sad trombone sad I'm not going to
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try any of that famous
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sausage founded in 1880 by Fred Usinger
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original building hous an 1850s butcher
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shop this is a neat little area down
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here
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right and here's the little Annex they
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even they even outgrew their current
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spot or had so much space they needed
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they have a little anex there world
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famous largest selection of Wisconsin
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cheese here at the Wisconsin cheese
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store you can even see there's a cow and
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some cheese right there in the window
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looked up a few places that were kind of
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well known downtown for food in
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Milwaukee and because of the day that it
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is not a lot to open down here but there
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is a Third Street Market Hall up
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here if it's anything
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like place in La they have like a L of
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different food options so I'm assuming
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that's what that is it looks like that's
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open a lot of artwork around here too so
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more artwork here in this little
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Courtyard
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area yeah Third Street Market Hall see
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what kind of Provisions I can find in
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here be nice to get out of the elements
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again
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too it is very mellow out here I'm I'm
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sure it's because like not a lot of
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people are at work today it is the
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weekend oh okay I know where I'm at back
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over here by the Warner again and
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stepping inside looks like they have
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rolled out the red carpet at the Third
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Street Market Hall kind of go through
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like it looks to be like an old shopping
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center type of mall and going in they
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did have a lot of really kind of unique
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food options you know a lot of different
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assortment of different things nothing
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really really jumped out at me per se I
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thought about eating in one or two of
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the spots and I kind of changed my mind
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and I was like oh maybe I'll get
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something over here but there was one
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really cool like retro toy place that
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had a lot of uh kind of like fried
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cheese curds and hot dogs and things
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like that that was kind of neat yeah
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kind of it was kind of like the place in
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La that's right downtown near Angel's
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flight I can't remember the name of it
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but basically like that kind of that
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kind of vibe where they have like a
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bunch of different food options in one
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place that is like localized you can get
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the best of everything kind of in one
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spot but again nothing really I wasn't
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maybe I just wasn't in the mood to like
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eat anything here yeah but really was
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kind of to nice to get out of the
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weather and walk around in
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here just kind
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of going Street by
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street block by block
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taking it all back that's talk about
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Earth Crisis also I wonder if there's
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any straight edge straight edge people
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in milwauke this is a beer drinking
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town but yeah I'm just going Street by
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street again no real major game plan
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this says the historic Third Ward is 2.5
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blocks away and also the Mason Street
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Landing is three blocks so I head that
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way curious what the Third Street
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historic Third Ward is
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the seagulls
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are circling around I think they're
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arguing with each
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other evidently there's a conglomeration
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of deer around here yet to be in fear of
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might be too cold for him to be out
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though ooh insects up the side of this
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building I like this
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road this fog has not burned off and I
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don't believe it's going to not warming
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up at all little insects on the side of
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this building the Milwaukee building
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that's that's what that
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says they're crawling up the up or down
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the side there
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that is an impressive building it looks
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like the building in New York City where
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John Lin and Yoko lived the seagull you
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need to get out of the street seagull
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you need to get out of that is a
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gargantuan bird that seagull is
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Big get out of the road seagull get out
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of the road why' the chicken cross the
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road get to the other side why did the
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seagull cross the
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road just because it was in Milwaukee
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right down the middle strutting right
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down the middle of the road I almost
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said Main Street but this isn't Main
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Street what you
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doing what you doing
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bird crushing some beer cans over here
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you've been pounding them back wi having
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a win and R
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moment what are you looking for
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bird what are you looking for all right
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see you later
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bird see you later
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sights and
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sounds of Milwaukee
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it's a neat little
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area another Public Market over here
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it's got a rooster or chicken up on the
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side of the
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building this is the commission
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house let's see the sign right on the
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side of it
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then you got some street bikes it is a
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good thing that the wicked walkway is
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open to the public you can walk right
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through the middle of the wicked hop
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restaurant you can go right through here
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weekend brunch Bloody Mary a this is the
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heart of the Third Ward that I'm walking
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through at the moment the heater was on
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too felt nice in there for a brief
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moment this is the third ward don't know
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what it is but I'm walking through it
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road just a Broadway bird you're just a
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Broadway
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bird North Broadway bird you're a North
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Broadway bird aren't
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you yep talking to a bird this van has a
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legacy that is not yet completed it is
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hasn't it's
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unfinished it has an
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unfinished
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Legacy so out
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here look over if this may possibly a
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railroad bridge or
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former railroad bridge does not look
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like an active bridge I guess I'm not
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allowed to walk down there but this
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little Courtyard here well not a
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courtyard but a little Overlook if you
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will
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and you just look at that
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Haze going across the water and it just
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shows this is the the vibe of the river
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right
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now fog
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Central kind of like it though kind of
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like it I'm not
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sweating and for that I'm happy another
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day every day without sweat is a good
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day
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this is a good philosophy should be my
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new motto most days especially in
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Florida you're sweating not sweating
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here not right now not today not 1 oce
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of sweat anywhere on my mind historic
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third word this word Third Ward my lip
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lips are numb though so having trouble
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talking my face is red and
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cold and one hand's in the pocket the
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other one's holding the camera this
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property has been placed on the national
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Rish historic places as well T site 35
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before back in
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1894 Riverwalk Plaza there's a little
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Archway up here that signify oh what is
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that oh that's a parking enforcer oh
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watch out it's got a Jeep it's a classic
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old van right there too with the windows
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on the side but here is the Third Ward
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historic Third Ward Archway take a look
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at this it's an alarm system for fire
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and police
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the old engine house number
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15 right here along the water where the
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lift plow blade goes over the
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bridge looks like now it's apartments or
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offices or something the old
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old station right
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there the sinking of the lady
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Elgen right here under underneath this
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Bakery that's not open today the seeking
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of the lady Elgen the loss of the
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sidewheel steamship lady Elgen or Elgen
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was one of Lake Michigan's most tragic
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Maritime disasters September 8th of
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1860 going from Milwaukee to Chicago San
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on a
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collision wow a board for 500 Union
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guard supporters mostly of the city's
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Irish Third Ward that's why this is here
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in the Third
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Ward over 300 lives were lost decimating
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the Irish Third Ward
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Community
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guess that's the same as PBR perhaps
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Blue
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Ribbon I don't know I'm not sure the
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birds triping up there
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but they're out of the elements as well
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cuz now it is started raining I'm
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underneath this little awning it is now
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starting to rain I don't know if I want
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to walk around in the rain
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I guess I can just look for awnings to
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walk underneath at some point I think
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I'm going take an Uber back to my hotel
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and go in for the night warm
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up at some point call it a yeah it's
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coming down good now it's coming down
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good let me zoom in on
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this I've seen a lot though seen a lot
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in this cold rainy
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day the bird above me saying should I
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just should I just end the Vlog here go
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back to my hotel rest up didn't get much
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sleep last night because of the flight
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long flight delay and layovers and
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travel
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day warm up the bones in my hotel
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room that's going to do it for
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today thanks for watching I'll see you
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in the next video the
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minutes okay believe I still call coffee
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on this
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hoodie wasn't planning on buying it but
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I needed