My Last Full Day In Las Vegas - Exploring Fremont Street & F1 Grand Prix Race Practice At The Sphere
Las Vegas Nov 2024
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welcome everyone Adam the wooo here as
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the recording of This is Thursday
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November 21st 2024 also known as my last
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full day here in Las Vegas before
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departing tomorrow I am on Fremont
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Street the Fremont East District if you
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will looking at the sign it's kind of
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obscured by the traffic lights Freemont
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proper I guess would be right down there
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where all the hustle and bustle is this
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area is a little more a little more
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mellow a lot more artistic going to grab
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some coffee from a highly recommended
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coffee shop right up here then head that
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way and at some point make my way over
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to the sphere where I have purchased a
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seat for the practice run of an F1 race
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that is happening this weekend I will
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not be here for the actual race itself
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but the cars are going to be out of full
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force a little later as the sun goes
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down and I have procured a seat and I
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will be in the vicinity of the sphere
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which I have not seen up close and
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personally yet I've seen it from a
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distance so G to be a full
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day on Fremont in the strip in spere
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join me good to have you here CH
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you how you doing man I'm Steve I'm a
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cool guy I'm pretty laidback no I'm from
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Las Vegas Nevada I just met this young
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guy right here he seemed like he's a
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cool guy you know what I'm saying so I'm
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going get to talk to him in a second
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once he finish the interview once again
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my name is l Stevie little Stevie all
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right right over here at the Western
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Hotel says life Life is Beautiful a
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little mural here says Life is Beautiful
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this casino has some good advice if at
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first you don't succeed then
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skydiving is not for
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you it's good advice good advice the
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name of the place is Mothership Coffee
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Roasters pretty good I've noticed with a
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lot of places I usually get regular
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coffee sometimes when you go to like a
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fancier kind of I don't call it fancy
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but just like a a place that has other
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things are just regular coffee a lot of
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times they're out of drip coffee that
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was the case here so they made me an
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Americana or an Americano maybe I'm
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thinking of The Offspring album
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nonetheless I now have procured a piping
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hot caffeinated beverage from the Mother
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Ship coffee roaster right there get a
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little
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caffeine caffeine in the system so over
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here over on this area of Fremont are a
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lot of these really retro Motel signs
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which I think are just so cool I mean
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you can see down there there's another
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one No Vacancy I don't think most of
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these aren't even open you can see where
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they've filled the pool in right there
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there's a pengu not penguin I'm say too
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much too much time in the frozen tundra
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there's a pigeon sorry sorry pigeon
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didn't mean to call you a penguin or
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maybe you want to be called The Penguin
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I don't know also classic car alert
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right up here it's like a an El Camino
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perhaps or something that looks like an
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El Camino right there and that's awesome
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look at this refurbished Motel sign air
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pool Travelers welcome Travelers Motel
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sign right there underneath this Archway
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again these are not open but they be
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looks like they're being refurbed
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considerably since a year and a half ago
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when I was out here they were in a
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little worse shape in my mind I think
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that they have been fixed up a little
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bit since the last time I was here these
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are awesome these places are awesome
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coffee shop is right over there next to
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the Ferguson's downtown Motel corner of
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11th in Fremont it's like kind of tucked
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away behind the motel rooms right over
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that little Courtyard over there I like
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all of the signs that are through here
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again kind of a repurposed area you got
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some different items on the sign always
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a lot of stuff to read through this
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section you got some storage
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units right over here a lot of artwork
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on the walls over over there this is an
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old looks like an old fuel station or
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mechanic shop of some sort we heading
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into the touristy section Fremont which
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is right up here glistening in the sun
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is a pink shoe high up on this little
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pedestal pedestal of the pink shoe and
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over here is a really large like
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gargantuan size mantis similar to the
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Coco mantis in Cookoo Indiana this one
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might you know what I think it's
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probably the same exact size except this
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one is made completely out of
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metal actually the one in the one up
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there might be made of metal too a Coco
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think it might even be the same
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manufacturer maybe the same person made
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both I never thought about that but
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maybe the same person made both mantises
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one with a gambling problem and one that
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lives in
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Indiana not saying that the one in
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Indiana hasn't played some slots maybe
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maybe made the commute on a plane over
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to Vegas it's a possibility to looking a
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little closer that it's definitely not
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the same people that made the Coco
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mantis cuz that one is attached to a
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truck and if memory service correct at
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night it breathes fire but so it's not
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the same check out the box containers
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making up this little section over here
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at the elcortez
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hotel has a gambling but they also on
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the the Marquee it says prime rib
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morning noon and night 1995 for some
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prime rib got those classic Vegas
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signage all scattered through here just
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classic FAS right there and speaking of
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old classic signage right here on
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Fremont here's going to be a little walk
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down Fremont Montage quick like showing
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a few little key
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points a lot of Fremont for the section
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I was just walking on the Fremont East
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District you can walk down or drive a
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car down once you get out of the Fremont
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District in Fremont proper they've cover
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completely covered it over where it used
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to be you seen the the movies kind of
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back in the day this area Fremont was
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not completely covered over in fact it
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was like more accessible and open you
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ever seen Honey I Blew Up the Kid where
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he's like walking through this
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particular section they didn't have the
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zip line all set up they didn't have any
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you know any of the Little Dome shape
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with the the light show happening and
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all that it definitely was not happening
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at Fremont in that era and it's kind of
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interesting how when you put a little
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covering in a dome on something it just
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changes the whole experience of it you
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know when you see it it doesn't it look
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it has a definitely a different kind of
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vibe when you're when you're when you're
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looking at it that way but I do like
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freea but I have to say it's a little
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different than being on the strip it's
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had the most unusual experience inside
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the Circa where
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the where the the lady is kind of
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mounted she's like a classic Vegas I
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can't remember her name but she's like
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up on the side of the wall in there as I
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was walking out I had $100 in my wallet
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I thought I'll throw I'll play some
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slots for a little bit did pretty well
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on slots the other day threw the 100 in
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there got down to about 20 I'm like
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should I cash out so I at least have 20
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still on me did not do that went down to
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went one more roll to about 15 it was
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doing $5 increments and I hit
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$470 so I won
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$350 in the slot machines inside here
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I've only played slots a couple times
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while I've been here and both times
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threw 100 in and won pretty good amount
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of money and uh that doesn't always
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always happened for me I would say 99.9%
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of the time I ended end up just losing
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whatever I put in there this time two
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times I have one since I've been in in
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Vegas in the last few days so I don't
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know what's going on but uh but yeah I'm
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I'm pretty happy about that also you got
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Plaza here which was the inspiration and
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the model for Biff's casino and Back to
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the Future two looks familiar right
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right maybe Biff maybe Biff is on my
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side jimy Cricket it's probably not
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probably not probably probably honestly
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probably not good if that would be the
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case scratch that even underneath the
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little Al Cove here they do have some of
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the lights on here at the Golden Gate
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the Golden Gate Casino there and there's
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the plaza off in the distance there's
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the Oasis Hotel no alarm clocks and free
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earplugs the sign
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says won't be much longer before it
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starts getting dark the sun is still up
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but the sun's been going down around 5
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in this area you got the lucky
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cuss
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motel and there's a 7-Eleven right here
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check out this 7-Eleven over right here
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in the Fremont
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District down on the there it says Elvis
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slept here on that Motel sign like way
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down there my shadow here you can see
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his Sun we'll be kind of setting soon I
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got a little lollipop I on a lollipop
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kick lately I don't know I've been like
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channeling
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the channeling T savales you look way
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down down there you see the
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Strat formerly the stratosphere the big
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tower the guy on the horse should be
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able to get some good neon views here
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soon enough sooner than later once the
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sun dips Down Over the Horizon ah yes
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the L
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Cortez right here I guess this would be
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classified as downtown Vegas so doesn't
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get confused if the Fremont district is
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downtown I see signs that say downtown
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but I don't really know 100% I just call
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it the Fremont District got a Starbucks
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here all right I made it over here to
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the montor rail station and now I'm
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looking at the amount of people showing
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up for the practice round of the start
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of the F1 race and the monil was the
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fullest I've seen the monil since I've
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had my stay here people leaving out of
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there you got the wheel here this is
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pretty wild the entire side of the
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street is completely blocked off for
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regular traffic and they're going to be
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having the the race going down this way
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at least the race practice race soon
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enough from what I can tell the cars are
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not going to be driving along here
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they're going to be driving on the other
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path which is like in between the two
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chain leak Gates over there but they're
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not letting people stand up close you
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can't stand over there against that
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those are obviously workers right there
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and there have people watching but I
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have seat over near the sphere so I get
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to see the sphere which just turned off
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get to see the sphere then also get to
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I'm also kind of glad that they have
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these little directional arrows so I'm
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going to be going over to the I think
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I'm in the F1 Zone to check my ticket
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yeah which is over by the sphere so I
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get to get my first up close view of the
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sphere with the F1 cars going
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by T-Mobile Zone that's the that's the
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word I was looking for got to go in to
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go out never been in this building
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before moving walk way wait a second
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moving walkway oh there's a moving
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wait it's not
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moving all right about to the
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reveal of the
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sphere I must admit I don't really know
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a lot about
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F1 really don't but worked out I was in
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town when it was happening and I figured
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what the heck I might as well experience
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it and mix it in with my first sphere
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experience all right so heading in
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really up close to the sphere this thing
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is like massive I me the thing is like
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huge and the fact that they not sure if
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they project they don't project on it I
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think it's actually a big like LCD
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screen all the way around and the
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circumference of the top of it not 3 not
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360° it doesn't go underground but the
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top 180 portion of it around 360 around
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the one I don't know what the specific
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that would be but anyway it's pretty
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amazing how they how they did all this
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also one thing I was not expecting is
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with the price of the ticket food is
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complimentary now if you get an adult
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beverag just without don't drink so it
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doesn't make any difference to me but
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all the food is absolutely free you just
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walk up grab whatever you want so I
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definitely indulge quite a bit of the
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complimentary food that came along with
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the chicken that I purchased in the
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grand stands to look at the sphere and
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see the F1 cars go by was not expecting
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the free food and I definitely went all
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out whenever Something Free is food and
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all it was actually really really good
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so I'm going around the back here where
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it says welcome to Las Vegas there's the
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ferris wheel I'm going to go up here
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find my seats there that uncertainty
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right like there's always that desire to
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not only do you want to push fast enough
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but also you want to conserve a little
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bit but the reality is
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like driv patience is not really in our
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SpongeBob fantastic lottery I enjoy it
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you're just going to see almost every
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single
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L 17 to win the race in Brazil but as a
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a from 2 years ago an interesting thing
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about that
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oh they got the heat on it out here too
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I mean it's definitely not Alaska cold
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but the sun is going down and nice to
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get a little
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warm I can just put my hoodie up it'll
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be fine but
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yeah heat
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lamps lot of merchandise here check it
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out they're
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Snoopy Snoopy up there repping the
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Formula One
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in the
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community even though they are the world
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every two weeks it's
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important certainly
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right walked all the way back over to
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the Montreal platform it's interesting
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though cuz where I was sitting is just
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right over there but you have to go all
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the way around to exit or to enter all
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the way around the sphere and then come
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all the way back down the roads then
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connect with the strip and then come
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back over here to get the Montreal to go
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over to the flamingo but I made it get
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some steps in saw some cars it was
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pretty neat I did not know what to
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expect and I can say those things go
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pretty dang
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fast next stop ISO Cesar pal station
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please allow passengers to
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exit ready for the nois noisiest
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escalator ever
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this going me
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something out of a horror film all right
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that's going to do it for today and
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again this is my final day of my Vegas
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trip I will be departing tomorrow
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starting to make
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my travels well starting on my
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travels leaving this area tomorrow so
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this is my last full day last ated here
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in Las Vegas it's been fun it's a nice
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little break up from Alaska to go home
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originally I was going to go to Seattle
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a couple days and i f fly from Seattle
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home after a couple days and I kind of
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changed that instead of stopping for a
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couple days in Seattle as went ahead and
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came straight here stayed here for uh
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not quite a week just shy of a week give
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or take a day it's been it's been uh
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it's been nice but I'm definitely ready
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to start making my way back to Central
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Florida for for a short while and
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that'll be tomorrow still here tonight
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but I mean you never know what happens
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tomorrow I mean nothing is guaranteed
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but the plan is for this to be my last
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FL day here in Viva Las Vegas thanks for
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watching I'll see you the next video the
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