The Empty Metrocenter Mall - Visiting Phoenix Bat Cave & Bill And Ted Circle K Is Still Open (Kinda)
Phoenix Arizona June 2023
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welcome everyone out of the woo here as
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the recording of it says Thursday June
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29 2023 I think these glasses might be
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in need of replacement another 100 plus
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day here in Phoenix Arizona I believe
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it's going to get to 104 105 today but
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who's counting I am I am in the shade
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because in the sun it's a whole other
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ball game no pun intended because I am
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walking over to game three of a ball
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game that is going to be played right
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over there and the other side of that
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trash compacting
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Transportation device known as a garbage
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truck it's Chase Field last night I went
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to the game didn't take my camera
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sometimes I go to baseball games and
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don't film but today
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considering the series is tied up one to
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one I'm hoping for a raised Victory I'm
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gonna film just a little bit of the game
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but the whole episode will not be about
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that later on I'm going to be going by a
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theme park which was supposed to open
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this year but got delayed a year I'm
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gonna go by there
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and just see how progress is going check
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out The Coasters see how construction
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update is going I'm inviting you to join
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me and I'll do some other stuff as well
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but who knows I'm just kind of winging
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it join me
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going to step into the sun now
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I feel that do you feel that join me
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challenge it is so toasty out here I
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could use that fire truck
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put out the Heat
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I know I do realize it's a dry heat but
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the sun here is more permeating than
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anywhere
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I've ever seen I mean there's not a
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cloud in
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the sky which I am glad Chase Field is
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in a dome just like Tropicana Field I
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love domes well it's not technically a
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dome it's just an enclosed roof but you
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get the idea these are kind of
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interesting too these are like windmills
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but they're well they're the wind is
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guiding them but they look like big
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spoons or bowls
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on the end and they're spinning around
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not only circular but also the other
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direction circular and up and down
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all by the win not a very good Breeze
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going through here but just enough to
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where it feels good
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with the heat index like it is last
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night was pretty intense
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ninth inning top of the ninth
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Josh Lowe hit a double
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center field and gave the raise the
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advantage and they went on
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to win
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now the series is tied up I'm gonna get
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off some Waters over here
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all right thank you have a good day okay
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appreciate it
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but there's almost seven dollars inside
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yeah the thing is cool about this
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stadium is you can buy stuff outside two
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for five and you can take them as long
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as they are in a clear bag you can take
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food and drinks
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inside the park currently 1201 first
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pitch is at 12 40. so getting here just
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before it starts so rays are still in
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first place in the a at least by five
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games over Baltimore they have a winning
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percentage of 663 tied up precisely with
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the winning percentage of the percentage
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of the Atlanta Braves and the national
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leagues even though the Rays have won
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one more game than the Braves have so
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right now
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Braves are best record in the NL and the
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race still number one in the AL and in
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all the baseball
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20 percent of time with the Braves but
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wins the best all right recommended by
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the Usher
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in baseball
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already with the Home Run two
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no one to zero I thought there was a guy
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on first but
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Luke or as we like to call him new craze
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ideas up now who is the front runner to
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play first place in the All-Star Game
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oh
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my god oh yeah go
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under with two RBIs come on around get a
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triple out of it
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triple for Wanda Franco let's see if
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Josh can repeat last night's performance
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no outspace is loaded in the third
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and going in between the fifth and sixth
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inning they do a mascot race called a
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Legends race and this one they got four
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of them running and it ended up being RJ
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Randy Johnson he's uh pulling away with
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the web
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razor Hook six two one one out bottom of
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the ninth deep asking the guy on first
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and second all right Full Count now also
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the scariest mascot ever sitting over
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there
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there you go Yandy boom that's it race
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win duh Rays win actually got the
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ballpark at 331 it's 105 degrees right
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now and I mentioned this the other day
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but this is my 14th stadium that I have
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visited
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while rooting for the race
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I've been to more stadiums than that but
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I'm only counting it once where the rays
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are playing if that makes any sense
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foreign
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Cactus is everywhere out here
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decided to hop on the 17 North gonna go
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buy a mall that I haven't been to in a
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couple years and just see what's going
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on
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that's said ball very popular with the
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locals but
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made
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known worldwide from Bill and Ted's
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Excellent Adventure this was the mall
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used in Bill and Ted's
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and I had seen online
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that there were some shops inside that
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were open I was thinking maybe there was
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a possibility the rumors were not true
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and at the mall
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might have still been open even though
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they had designated a closing date a
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couple years ago that I attended me and
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my friend Sean Clark came out here for
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the last day
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and then I believe they did a movie
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screening like a few months ago or less
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than half a year ago that I did not
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attend
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and I was thinking possibly
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there would be a chance I could get
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inside here today but it does not look
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like the interwebs and as far as stores
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being open in here are true it is all
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boarded up and sealed up even the
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Harkins Metro Cinema
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also boarded up I had to look it up last
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time I was here was in July of 2020 so
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it has been just about three years
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where has the time gone
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I figured if it wasn't open I figured
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the place would be level by now but it's
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just kind of sitting here
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rotting away
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wow
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you know after the you know the time
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frame of 2020
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really kind of
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change the way we think about time three
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years just feels like a year
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when you say something was five years
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ago it only feels like a couple years
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ago
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I can't be the only one that feels that
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way hard to believe it was three years
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since the last time I was in here I
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always like the architecture of this the
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tile work up there almost looks like
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four french fries
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even these benches here I would imagine
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someone has tried to remove these but
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these are
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extension hard into the ground with the
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cement there
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can't go inside obviously what if I
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could peek through the window though
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some birds flying by
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all right
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okay I guess if you go past that section
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there's like a little
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a weird little noise there all right
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so we'll not be Crossing that line
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yeah it's it's pretty much a fact that
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all movies are seven dollars any movie
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any day anytime it's not factual
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anymore you see someone has definitely
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gotten in here
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that's why they put these boards up
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someone probably shattered the windows
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you can see the escalators on there
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looking through the Dirty Glass here
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and even a guy just pulled up and this
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little
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now it does look as if this storage unit
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is open
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so that's possibly why it indicates that
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a portion of the former Mall
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is accessible but you probably cannot
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get in it's just like a storage unit
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so let me just do a full circle around
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the mall
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just in case the next time I'm out here
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it's leveled
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so you go around this side as there's an
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active Walmart
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right over there
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it's connected
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to the mall this guy's punching the sign
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I was very angry he was punching the
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sign
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and he had a shirt that said Good Vibes
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on it
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except I don't think he was having a
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good vibe day
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oh wow look at this look at these like
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birds over here
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that are like nested on the top of the
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awning
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a Hitchcock
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would be proud you notice over here
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there is a little construction so
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they're building a bridge of some sort
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commuter Bridge
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and you see The Dillards store closing
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sign is still up
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so you can't drive completely
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around the mall
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to kind of like do a U-turn and go back
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the other way
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it's another entrance to the Metro
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Center here
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and it looks like this which possibly
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could have been a JC Penney's or
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something like that
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with the unique tile work on it
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became a U-haul center for a while in
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fact it still has the now open U-Haul
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on the front but that is not factual
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there is no U-Haul here it's kind of
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eerie
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has some Romero Dawn Vibes to it
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anytime I think of them all I think of
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that
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look at that Romero film
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all right see you later Bill and Ted
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Maul see you later up in the distance is
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the Cardinal Stadium there's some sort
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of event going on today I don't think
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it's
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I think it's a football game maybe it is
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but trouble finding parking up there
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because for the event
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but off to the side you can see a
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coaster this is going to be the Mattel
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Adventure Park it was going to open this
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year but now it's opening next year that
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is going to be a roller coaster
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themed around Hot Wheels so it's going
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to be all the Mattel products they're
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going to have a Barbie Dream House
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they're going to have Castle Grayskull
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from He-Man Masters of the Universe full
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size
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and they're going to have a whole Hot
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Wheels section
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and a coaster which looks like it's
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going to be a pretty good time curious
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to see how well it's going to do
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during the summer time but it looks like
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they're building a lot of Interiors also
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to keep people out of the Sun a little
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bit
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who knows maybe in 2024 when it opens
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I'll have to like pop back in and check
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it out it looks like a pretty dang good
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kosher that goes through the building
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itself
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yeah the coaster is outdoors but then
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the lift Hill
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almost looks like it goes indoors
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to tell and over there in the distance
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is a new resort they're building that's
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kind of open along with the park
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adjacent to it that almost looks like
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it's finished
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could be finished
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and you got some of the
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construction update
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you can also see another resort area
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there that's not finished behind it and
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even more buildings over there so just a
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lot of buildings out here
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that are being constructed for the
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Mattel theme park Adventure Park
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right next to Cardinal Stadium
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I don't know if I want to go any farther
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than this I'll be rooted into the main
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parking lot for whatever event is going
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I have made the commute over to the
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opposite side of town over tempeh
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Strange Things Are afoot
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at the former Circle K now the corner
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market but I am happy
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that the place is not shuttered and
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empty nor
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abandoned but it is not a Circle K where
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the telephone booth came down
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it is now
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the corner
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Market
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from Bill and Ted's Excellent
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Adventure it is still open
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I had thought you know you just never
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know until you show up somewhere that it
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had completely closed they did an event
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where they showed the movie on the other
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side about I don't know a year ago
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actually it may not have been a year ago
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either way I was not here for it
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and now Circle K has completely pulled
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out and now it is called the corner
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Market but it's still open and it still
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looks the same
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telephone booth right there
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ice machines we're in a different spot I
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think there were different ice machines
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as well
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this is it
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how cool and if you haven't seen Sean
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Clark malfunctions filming location
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video him and I a couple years ago well
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it's been three years ago now I think he
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uploaded his video like two two and a
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half years ago check it out just look up
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Bill and Ted filming locations
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malfunction in a pretty good detailed
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video of all the spots then
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but this is what it looks like now so
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you call this like an update after the
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Circle K has been removed and look it's
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interesting because the mall had some
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busted out windows and this also some
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busted out windows kind of curious if
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they still have the Bill and Ted poster
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in here I'm gonna go in and check it out
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this is uh right here is where they were
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sitting
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the same coolers over in the distance
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there I'm gonna get myself a mountain
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water here and they do in fact still
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have the poster
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that says that it was filmed right over
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there in the corner their posts are
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still on the side of the wall the Bill
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and Ted's Excellent Adventure post are
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signifying that it was in fact filmed at
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this very location which is now referred
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to as
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the corner store is no longer Circle K
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but good news it is still open for
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business and you can come in here and
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they still embrace it which is awesome
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this place is pretty busy I mean it's
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just a constant flow of people in and
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out of here the corner market
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strange strange things or a foot at the
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corner market now a couple things you
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can look for if you watch them if you're
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familiar with the movie are the double
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doors double doors are still there
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and where the pay phone was over here it
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was painted red
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but this little
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kind of circular area over here that's
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now painted blue
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and again there were ice machines but
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they were a little farther over this way
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and they were different ice machines and
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there was a pay phone on the other side
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too so there was like a Payphone over
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there but then also the big Payphone
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came down landed right about here it's
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kind of neat too you see the glass there
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so the glass windows are still the same
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notice this kind of like uh let's say
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you look over here behind George Carlin
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you got one two three four five six
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plane uh plates of glass then you have
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kind of like a thick pole and there's
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three or four other on the other side
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and those are still kind of how it looks
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now too so you have one two three four
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five six
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before the thicker Pole
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so basically right about there
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is where they met themselves and they
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did the air guitar right there in that
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very spot
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and there's the angle there with the
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telephone booth and George Carlin
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it's painted blue but like I said it was
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red in the film the paint there on the
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curb is what I'm referring to yeah the
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paint was red now it's blue
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there's a pretty good view without
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anyone in front of it
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still open
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it's not a Circle K
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I was really expecting to pull up here
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and it'd be
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just kind of shuttered up and empty and
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abandoned kind of like the mall was
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strange things or a foot
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at the corner market
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it doesn't have the same
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or something okay I have made it over to
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an area where at dusk and Nightfall
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swarms of bats
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fly out of their cave I don't know where
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their cave is but I definitely see
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a lot of bats
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flying around the water there
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flying around right over there
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I'm just gonna see if I can figure out
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where the cave is I found a parking spot
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next to like a local apartment complex
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on a restaurant and they look like birds
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but I think those are bats flying around
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I mean these are ducks
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in the water here
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those are two ducks but you'll see the
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winged creatures
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winged freak
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terrorizes
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wait till they get a load of me oh is
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that a bat
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okay this is the spot I see other people
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over here
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this is the bat cave
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right there they hide down in there
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then when Nightfall rears it's heavily
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go out look at this
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oh my gosh
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look at that
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5 000 Mexican free-tailed bats live in
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this flood control tunnel during the
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summer
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there's a small Congregation of people
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here watching the bats too
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show up okay on camera though
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yeah you can just see I mean it's just
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like countless amounts
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exiting out waking up
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waking up
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heading out for the night
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like The Lost Boys
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I have to wonder where they're going
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where are they going to
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it's a maternity Colony for these bats
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then give birth to their young
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the females fly out to forage for food
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okay they answered my question the young
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are left behind in the roost
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that was a good ending to the day
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really cool
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and that's gonna do it for today
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I'll see you in the next video
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from the greater Phoenix area
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on some of the outskirts some of it in
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Phoenix proper I went all over
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see you in the next video the Vlog
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is
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over oh yeah I forgot to add in about an
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hour or two ago MLB just announced that
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Yandy Diaz first baseman for the Rays is
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going to start in the MLB All-Star game
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and left fielder for the race
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Randy or rosarina is starting the MLB
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they're going to have rays are going to
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have two St two players in the starting
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lineup at the All-Star Game this year
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pretty dang awesome