Blockbuster Video Returns To Orlando - Limited Time Pop Up Experience / Retro Video Store With VHS
The Blockbuster Experience in Orlando 2024
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this Tuesday March 5th
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2024 I have arrived here at the central
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Florida fairgrounds right off Colonial
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Drive the central Florida Fair is taking
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place but I am not here I've done a lot
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of a lot of I did the Florida state fair
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over in Tampa I did the Florida
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Strawberry Festival and now I have
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arrived to yet another Carnival type
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attraction but I will not be here for
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the rides per se I am here to check out
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a Blockbuster Video
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popup put
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on by the people who own or or have the
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last Blockbuster store in Bend Oregon
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which I have never been to so because I
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can't make that commute immediately
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right now to go there they have brought
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it here to Central Florida and I'm going
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to check it out it's located inside the
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central Florida Fair I'm inviting you to
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join me for a little VHS throwback Eve
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it's about 4:00 it's like 2 or 3 minutes
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till 4: when the gates open and I wanted
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to check this out I'm inviting you to
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join me it's good to have you here shall
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you I've seen a hand few of other people
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showed up it's been going on for a
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series of days I wasn't able to make it
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out here till now my good friend Tampa J
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came out here he also did a haunt out
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here and he might have done a ride or
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two but he checked out the Blockbuster
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as well fellow fan of the VHS generation
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like I am I thought you know what I need
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to see this with my own eyes so here I
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am also the greatest carnival on the
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planet that's an amazing statement you
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got to love
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these little up and backs to go back and
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forth this way that way this way that
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way this way that way it's the greatest
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up and back up and
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back this time of year pre-spring a
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Spring's in what a week from now let's
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just call a
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Spring there's a lot of these events
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going on this is kind of this is this is
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crazy back and forth I'm not sure how
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much it is to get into the Blockbuster
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if that's included in the Fair
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admission how you doing but it looks
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like it's going to be $10 for me to get
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it I'm not going to be getting a ride
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wristband cuz I'm not going to be going
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on any rides this is pretty nice it's
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only $2 today to get in it's $2 Tuesday
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$2 Tuesday enjoy $2 entry to the fair
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so it is not in fact
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$10 every other day it is today it's $2
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Tuesday $2 Tuesday that's about how much
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a video rental used to be actually some
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video rentals were a dollar they were
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five for five the new releases back in
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the day were $2 that's when you know it
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was that's when you know it was a little
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little pricey to get the new releases
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hey here's a general layout of the land
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right here there are some flowers down
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here that are not look like they're not
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really doing too good at the moment
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might need a little little watering but
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this is the layout of the land I'm not
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sure exactly where it's located at oh
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map number key Fair office haunted house
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vendor Village creative arts Orlando
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Amphitheater beer garden livestock I
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don't see a video store on there h i
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just walk around see what I can see oh
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look at this look at well okay all right
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is it right
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here
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hm
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doubtful is it over there
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it looks like a some sort of a fair
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setup that's not or not a fair but a
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circus setup look at
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this they make it a blockbuster
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night I will also say this Blockbuster
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was not my favorite video store I have a
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little Nostalgia for
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Blockbuster but some of my favorite
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video stores aren't doing like reunions
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like Blockbuster is I would say I had
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two or three other places that I like
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better I like some of the independent
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ones a little bit better than the the
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big boy the Blockbuster but I did go to
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Blockbuster a lot but just to put it out
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there I I think there was better ones
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Blockbuster couple negative things about
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Blockbuster is they didn't have a lot of
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options sometimes youd go in and you
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could ask for a movie even like an
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academy award-winning movie like one
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time I went in and said hey where can I
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find network on VHS they had no idea
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what I was talking about and then
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sometimes they would take movies and
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they would chop them up they would do
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Blockbuster edits and they would chop
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out things from the film so those are
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the two little weird things that I will
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say as a little asteris to my
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Blockbuster fandom still still like it
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but they were they were they were they
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were kind of a weird company and I
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should also add and I worked for a video
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store an actual VHS store right up until
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Blu-ray started getting popular and the
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guy that owned it decided he was going
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to close the store instead of
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transferring his inventory from VHS to
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Blu-ray he he's like his his this a
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paraphrase his thought process is I'm
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gonna go down with the ship and he saw
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that the writing on the wall for the for
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the the the Enterprise known as the the
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video Market was soon approaching and I
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was kind of like well that's kind of an
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interesting interesting way to look at
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it because you know you can just move on
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to to Blue but his inventory was so good
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for the VHS he had so many deep cuts his
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his Arsenal his library of his inventory
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was just so freaking good that he didn't
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want to try to go Reby all that on DVD
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and I think he made the right choice
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because years later
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DVDs and Blu-rays you really can't find
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too many rental places anymore it's all
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streaming now so he's probably sitting
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back enjoying the the uh the decision
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that he made that he that he got out at
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the right time video Center in
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CMI that was a store I worked at closed
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down many years
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ago right when VHS switched over to DVD
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he had a had a great inventory though I
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learned a lot about movies did you used
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to go to Blockbuster Video Blockbuster
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Video growing up yeah back in the day
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very much so memories of Blockbuster
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everybody want the Blockbuster Video
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there waited in line and and paid the $2
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for the uh $2 to have the rewind fee
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remember that's right the admission in
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here is $2 so I'm trying to tie that
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into the $2 thing $2 $2 rides $2 $2 yeah
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$2 rides $2 our Tuesday yeah we're uh
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please come out to Florida Central
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Florida Fair how long is a fair going on
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for and on uh Sunday I got to say I
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really like your guys shirts too this is
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Stan and this is Cindy come see them at
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the at the fair there's so much going on
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because we had the CMI Fair Central
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Florida Fair we had the state fair and
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we had the Strawberry Festival we had
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the Pasco Fair a lot ofir Pasco County
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Fair we got Fort St Lucy Fair a lot ofir
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all these all these Carnival um the
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carnival side this is their this is the
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beginning of their season so this is
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that's why you're uh you're you're
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flooded in this market right now cuz
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then everybody goes up north and when I
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worked at video Center it was kind of
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kind of comical in my own mind because
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people would come out come in they would
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ask for recommendations and I would go
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through a whole spiel about what kind of
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movies they liked I would give them some
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ideas you know older movie classics that
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we had in the in the the drama or the
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comedy section all that kind of stuff
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and then they would end up just
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listening to what I said and then they
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would make a beine right over to the new
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release wall in fact the carpet had a
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worn track to the new release wall and I
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realize people don't want to watch older
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movies they are they think the new
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releases are the best and I feel like
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that's probably a good business model
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it's probably why red box is still
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around in front of convenience stores
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and stuff I don't know where the heck
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I'm going I guess should probably ask
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but I feel like I don't think anybody
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people work in the attractions would
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know oh yeah so I regained my train of
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thought from earlier before I went over
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to where the Dipping Dots area was is
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they used to have a book at the video
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Center I worked at it every year they
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would have a new edition of something
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called the video Hound that was before
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IMDb it was like the it was like the
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book version of IMDb before the internet
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yeah anyway the video Hound I believe
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was called that book I would study that
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thing and it would tell you who directed
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something what actor was in other movies
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etc etc it was definitely a wealth of
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knowledge it was like a Bible for or you
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know an encyclopedia maybe not a Bible
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an
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encyclopedia for film knowledge ah all
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right now getting an arrow here got the
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Blockbuster experience right here right
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on the side of this they got this
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they're utilizing this little uh little
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section right here guess they must just
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be open up pull the table out right now
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I guess I'm catching it right when
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they're right when they're opening the
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doors all right they had to come back in
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just a few minutes so I walked inside
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this indoor area with some arts and
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crafts and some sort of a like a PL like
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a part of a plane over here I guess
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that's what this is geocorp unit number
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13 right here you can see the front
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where the controls were and all that was
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like and then there's a knight over
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there in this Castle I wonder if this
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Knight remembers 16,000 movies there was
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one of those in CMI right on 192 uh
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maybe a few blocks before you would get
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to John Young like somewhere in that
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vicinity and that place man that place
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had a lot of options too and there was
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video Center the one I worked out there
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was also 16,000 movies and there was uh
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it and they really did have probably
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close to 16,000 movies they really kept
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up with the name and every once in a
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while you'll bump into an actual open
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video store Indiana still has some
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family videos I think there's some
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Family Videos still open all right price
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of admission $3 I got a one day Rental
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coupon
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here all right that's pretty neat take a
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look at
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this got the sign
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here got the ATM over there I got
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another big sign over there how's it
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going good come on in give me the old
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speed are you I'm good give me
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we are the walkr Blockbuster experience
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we've traveled across the United States
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looking for abandoned Blockbusters so
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you can see these are all original
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countertops original signing throughout
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the building we even saw saw the quickie
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drop box right here from Atlanta Georgia
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store that was probably left for about
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15 years we're assuming that this store
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closed in about 2012 according to the
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movies that we found on this Coming
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Attraction sign um that's exactly how we
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found it so that's how we left it yeah
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yeah
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uh we do have about 15,000 DVDs and
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vhs's no matter what we find we put out
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so all movies are $5 no matter what so
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it is a treasure hun okay so you're not
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renting you're selling or selling okay
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gotcha did you become a blockbuster
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employees you do get a vest for your
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shift so you can put that on at any time
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there's plenty of photo opportunities
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throughout the whole entire store
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there's no time limit to take your time
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if you have any questions you let me
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know so everything's for sale for $5 all
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the movies are for sale all the movies
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what you find yes Absol sounds good that
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candy all the snacks are still for sale
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just like the store that's awesome all
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right thank you absolutely honey go Ahad
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and put your vest on your Shi started 5
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minutes ago you're a little late my smok
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they call SM yes exactly yeah I used to
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wear used to wear one of these when I
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worked at Walmart very similar color
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color a Walmart smok so another fun tie
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in there was one time that I applied for
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Blockbuster Video years after I worked
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at video Center out in the manor when I
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in St Cloud I between jobs way before
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YouTube I applied and the guy who was
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the manager decided not to hire me
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because I had
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tattoos true story so now years later
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I'm a blockbuster I'm a blockbuster
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employee also a movie out you get $25
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you get the Blu-ray here the documentary
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about the 9,000 locations down to one
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yeah so no rentals they're just all for
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sale so anything in here is $5 when it
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comes to like to any kind of like like
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hard copy something you get Jim Carrey
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The Majestic for $5 either VHS or DV I'm
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not sure if they're going to have any
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Blu-rays and you can't like buy this TV
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for $5 so it's just only it's only the
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actual like physical media if you will
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they got the photo ops here with the
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double feature you know a double feature
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pillow and then the couch and the
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popcorn and the the uh cocacola and the
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BL oh look at this they have they even
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have the make of the Blockbuster Night
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DVD right there this Captain Marvel
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destroys Blockbuster store these are
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great too old rewind machines you would
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push that I want to break that you push
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that down to rewind it it had different
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themed ones that you could rewind the
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VHS and from working at a video store
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when I worked at video Center you
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realize that a lot of people do not re
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or did not rewind there and there was I
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always heard this rumor that a lot of
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video stores would make more money off
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of the penalty fees late fees and Rewind
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fees that they would make off the actual
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rental fees never were actually fact
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checked out or clarified it but it seems
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like it would be right and to rewind
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this would take a would take a heck of a
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big machine right here look at it's the
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last Blockbuster on the planet Bend
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Oregon one day I'm going to get up there
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I know a few people who've been up there
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but I haven't been up there okay there
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are other things for sale okay I
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misunderstood so obviously $5 for all
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the physical media but then also the
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candy you can buy you want to buy a
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rees's for $3 Sour Patch Sweet Tarts $3
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$3 the sugar babies right there
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the Baby Ruth The Rice Krispy Treats
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candy bars over here for
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$2 as well yeah some some pretty good
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titles in here of course Young
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Frankenstein classic right there
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Breakfast Club Kurt Reynolds here with
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the could be a screen used movie prop it
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doesn't say that it is the old mat down
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below here it's also neat how the
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employee the front was saying if they
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got all this stuff closed down franchise
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stores one of some of the 9,000 that
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closed and they kind of either put him
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at the Bend Oregon one or this this
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revolving touring
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Blockbuster right here now that is that
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is interesting in the
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movie was this used in the movie I just
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recently rewatched that actually I
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watched it like a week ago again the
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first which is very difficult to find in
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fact it's not on streaming anywhere I
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couldn't even like purchase it to stream
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so I had to go on I had to go on Amazon
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and buy the Blu-ray Cannonball 1 and 2
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have it delivered to my house so I
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watched Cannonball Run less than a week
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ago I'm trying to recall what this was
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used in he wasn't driving a truck that
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had this okay one thing I'm noticing now
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I'm not seeing any VHS I'm only seeing
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DVDs which kind of I guess is what they
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had when the last stores closed it was
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probably before the oh here's a few
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never mind there's a few we got the
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Slugger wife right here and the rose B
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Midler classic right here love some B
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Midler some of these are kind of kind of
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old school little da am me right here so
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they do have a few VHS of course Top Gun
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three men and a little lady the sequel
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so Three Men and a Baby did pretty well
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Bulletproof the uh the one the fourth
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Adam Sandler well the fourth successful
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Adam Sandler movie cuz you had Billy
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Madison happy Gore well before that
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there was a there was another one there
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was like kind of a a going over was
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overboard no overboard going overboard
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was a different movie overboard no
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overboard was with Goldy H going
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overboard was the first Adam Sandler
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then Madison Happy Gilmore and then
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bulletproof well I'm just like having
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some uh some throwback moments okay
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there's some VHS o I recently watched
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this too this classic ghost ad filmed on
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Bushnell in uh same rout as Back to the
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Future Back to the Future and old school
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ghost ad was right next where two two
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houses down from George MC flies on
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Bushnell in South Pasadena that movie is
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not good everyone kind of dogs on
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Leonard part 6 but I think Leonard part
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6 is actually a funner movie to watch
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than ghost ad and also ghost ad fun fact
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ghost ad was directed by Sydney porier
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if I remember Mar correctly I don't know
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something about ghost adage I remember
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it being good and I rewatched it about a
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month or two ago and I was like oh wow
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this movie is uh it's not even it's not
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even good in a in a fun bad way lard
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part 6 I'll I'll stand behind that's a
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that's a fun bad movie I feel so
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official having my smok on I have't not
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worn a smok like this since I work at
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Walmart on the stock crew I opened up
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the St Cloud St Cloud Walmart was part
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of the opening crew work at Walmart for
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I don't know a year or two two years and
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I used to always wear the smok it would
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get very very dirty the smok and it's
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very very similar to this in fact these
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might be old Walmart smoks that they
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just put the Blockbuster emblem on
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there's probably one big smok company
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they just utilize all them for their
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smok gear we got some Disney clam show
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bells down here the clam shell cases he
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got a secret ADM 2 never saw the set
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this the sequel to secret ADM there is
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one oh I remember this this is pretty
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good the uh tall tail kind of a deep cut
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Disney one saw that couple times back in
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the day Escape to Witch Mountain that's
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good that's pretty good if this is $5
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that's a pretty good deal wonder if it's
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actually in there yeah look at that
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that's a pretty good deal $5 for uh the
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VHS chitty shitty bang bang here
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jungle to Jungle 2 that Darn Cat Haley
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Mills collection
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there this is one of my favorite will
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phell movies I know a lot of people
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probably disagree with me on this but
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this movie is freaking hilarious this
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and bewitched oh it's right here
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Bewitched these are two honestly of my
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favorite will farell films they're kind
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of completely different than normal will
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farell films they're kind of more fake
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family PG is than some of his other
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comedy I mean even though you know elf
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is very familyfriendly too that's a
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really good one too but these are both
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of these are amazing that movie is
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hilarious beitch is hilarious but this
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movie is classic there's a whole scene
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about coffee half CF half CF oh my gosh
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Club Paradise a Robin Williams deep
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cut wow Rick Moranis Robin Williams I
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used to watch this all the time back in
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the day holy cow I totally forgot
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there's a joke that Robin Williams tells
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him this where he he had met a guy and
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he gave advice to to only wear one glove
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just wear one glove telling a story like
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I give good ADV I'm paraphrasing I give
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good advice I met a guy once and I told
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him just wear one glove and his career
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took off who was that guy Willie
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ma okay they're they're kind of half and
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half mix 10 well 3/4 blue ray
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the other half VHS there's definitely
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some big vhs's in here
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ooh here's a tough one to find this
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really isn't on streaming and this the
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Blu-ray is tough to find cocoon on VHS
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filmed in Florida what just a perfect
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film I mean you think of a perfect film
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cocoon Ron Howard was that his director
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directorial debut if it wasn't it was
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one of his early ones man this
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movie it gets it gets me every time I
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love cocoon just a just a flawless
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Flawless
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movie the game that's a good
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one who else was in game it was uh Shawn
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pen that's right right yeah Shawn pen
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Michael Douglas and Shawn
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pen Dead Zone Anthony Michael Hall Cop
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Land the Stallone movie that hardly
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anybody saw good
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movie all the cops in New York lived
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over in Jersey and
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the the the main cop that had to like
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you know watch over make sure that they
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all abided by the law was Stallone he
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gained a lot of weight for that
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movie
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Springer classic
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Scrooged roxan supposedly there's a
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house in celebration of someone built
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modeled after Daryl Hannah's House in
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rockand again I'm never who who no I
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don't think I Will Stand Down Mr Slade
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so if you're on the lookout to add to
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your DVD or VHS collection definitely
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DVD collection DVDs are still your thing
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pop over to the fair check out the you
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also get some really good photo let's
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say you don't want to buy any physical
20:42
media you can show up in here get some
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really good
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photos for social media and stuff it's a
20:48
really good backdrop if that's your if
20:51
that's your
20:52
Forte pretty neat little setup that they
20:56
got o here's a a Blu-ray look at this
20:59
it's a Blu-ray a rental Blu-ray Live by
21:02
Night interesting it actually says
21:05
rental and it's a
21:06
Blu-ray it's also kind of funny I see
21:09
other people walking around with these
21:10
on and I think that they're workers for
21:14
the
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experience it's a good one too giant
21:18
Up's great in this Paul Ruben think Paul
21:20
Rubin is in this yeah Paul Rubin in this
21:28
also
21:28
here's one I haven't seen I never saw
21:30
for what reason tequila Sunshine always
21:33
slip past my radar I always see it in
21:35
the VHS store or the video store I
21:37
worked out but Against All Odds man
21:41
couple Jeff Bridges movies side by side
21:43
wedged on either side of Dances with
21:46
Wolves completely fantastic film they
21:49
will go on or is legendary status and
21:52
everyone is
21:54
saying and then there's this one you
21:56
know what's funny this is on this is
21:58
actually on my watch list to stream very
22:00
very soon I was just talking about
22:02
overboard over here oh was just talking
22:03
about 3 minut a baby as well this is
22:05
another freaking great Steve Martin
22:07
movie Father of the Bride just a just an
22:09
epic epic film Windy City I don't think
22:13
I've seen that one out of Africa of
22:14
course I've seen also mentioning uh
22:16
Indiana hooers probably greatest
22:18
basketball film ever oh my gosh places
22:21
in the heart this is awesome I freaking
22:26
loved this movie I used my mom used to
22:28
watch this all the time Sally Phil
22:31
classic malovich just Danny Glover you
22:33
got the ghost stand up over here and
22:35
then again a lot more of the clam shells
22:37
of the Disney ones over here some pretty
22:39
good ones right through here got a
22:40
cardboard cut out here for babe and then
22:43
down here you got American Anthem I
22:45
don't think I ever saw that but it's a
22:46
new vision of love and Triant from the
22:48
director of purple rain and then you got
22:49
over here you got the stickers over here
22:51
Blockbuster movie intro right here you
22:53
got a little pinball style machine the
22:55
movie Blaster all right so I just had my
22:57
question asked this is Dom Del's really
23:01
yeah this is where the whole idea came
23:03
from where did you guys get that how did
23:05
you get a hold of that um The Prop Store
23:09
anytime they get burnt Reynold stuff
23:11
email me okay somebody actually outbid
23:13
me and I was horribly upset and like 3
23:17
months later they said hey the guy never
23:19
paid yeah so Dom Del Lisa's jacket he
23:22
was driving the ambulance correct and so
23:24
what was this I don't remember the truck
23:26
Hollow which which which um Mad Dog and
23:30
Alfie wise is driving and he says Mad
23:32
Dog you are going to take the
23:34
shortcutting the interstate and they go
23:35
through all the trees yes up the side of
23:37
the thing yeah some so it was like
23:40
multip up the side of the on uh out of
23:42
the out of the hotel up the side of the
23:44
ramp yes sir holy cow that's right okay
23:47
we actually have uh the whole reason
23:50
this store exists is for me to show off
23:52
My BT Reynolds collection so really we
23:54
have you know in best little whouse in
23:56
Texas okay um there's a scene where Dom
23:59
comes into town and bird comes and
24:01
shoots at him and they all run I have
24:04
the outfit from the poster and when he
24:06
falls into really it it smell bit you
24:10
love you love Bert I do love some Bert
24:12
did you get a lot of this from the place
24:13
in South Florida when he sold a lot of
24:15
it he actually gave me so I would go
24:18
help so there's a TransAm network of
24:20
people okay um and I met him we would do
24:24
autographs I would go help take money
24:26
for him and he
24:29
I I was wearing a blockbuster shirt one
24:31
day and he said oh I bet you would like
24:33
this so he gave me that he is that where
24:34
you got that yeah and the whole idea of
24:37
this came about because of well this was
24:39
under my TV and I was watching Captain
24:42
Marvel and she fall her a blockbuster
24:44
and I needed a Halloween theme and here
24:47
we go and that's where the true live
24:48
standy and the Babe standy come in I saw
24:51
the bab one yeah yeah she shoots that as
24:54
she leaves the
24:56
story which movie
24:58
um Captain Marvel Oh Captain Marvel yeah
25:01
I have not seen Captain Marvel yet it's
25:04
of the two okay I it's amazing I've seen
25:07
true lies about 87 times so this was a
25:10
blockbuster exclusive that's why it has
25:12
a sticker on it and it's blue mhm do you
25:14
have any of the ones that were the weird
25:16
Blockbuster edits remember how they
25:17
would chop the movies up I mean I'm sure
25:19
if we watched it yeah as a matter of
25:21
fact we were talking about that the
25:22
other day it would usually say it on the
25:23
cover it would say Blockbuster edit and
25:25
they would trim out a lot of the like
25:26
brunchy stuff well okay that's the
25:29
sliver yeah yeah I want to find one of
25:32
those I mean a lot of people I say it
25:34
they don't believe me that they about
25:35
Blockbuster used to like chop their
25:36
films up and like put their own
25:38
Blockbuster edit out they did so the it
25:40
would be you could go back and probably
25:42
look to see which ones they did it so
25:44
this goes on to Sunday the 10th Sandy
25:46
will be here Thursday Friday Saturday
25:48
Sunday and who and Sandy is the one that
25:50
runs the one up in Bend correct she's
25:52
the the general manager have you ever
25:55
seen the machine I'm sure you've seen
25:56
The Machinist I have not so Christian
25:59
Bale basically lost oh a ton of weight
26:04
so he in the commentary he said the
26:06
director wanted him to basically be a
26:08
human skeleton that was in the script so
26:10
he showed up weighing like 94 lb and
26:13
he's a Christian Bale and he the
26:15
director was like what the heck but he
26:17
went from like I think he did Batman or
26:19
no he did American Psycho before this
26:21
then he did this and then he did Batman
26:23
so he went from like buff to this to
26:26
back to just amazing it's a it's a good
26:29
movie but no one's seen that no one's
26:31
seen it but it's a great movie so that's
26:34
I knew when we purchased the video tour
26:35
in Texas I could tell when he was when
26:38
he started from when he finished based
26:41
on his movies I talk about Christian
26:44
Bale well just in general like there's a
26:46
lot of
26:47
20s up to to the end you know what I
26:50
mean you say Easter egg what do you mean
26:51
EAS just you know the better the harder
26:54
to find I put a 28 28 Weeks Later out
26:57
the other and I could hear the kid
26:59
scream oh my God I found so you're
27:01
cycling this out as they sell you're
27:02
bringing more inre I gotta so you got
27:05
three what is the day today uh today's
27:07
the sixth so you have four more days
27:09
five more days counting oh it's the
27:11
fifth it's the fifth myad fifth I said
27:13
the day at the beginning of the video
27:14
and I totally don't remember this is a
27:15
great movie too the mechanic Charles
27:17
Bronson I don't know if you're in I love
27:18
the you like that see this is one of the
27:20
best so this has Jan Michael Vincent
27:22
from Airwolf in it Jan Michael Vin the
27:24
ending of this movie is the most insane
27:26
ending and as soon as you get the
27:29
climactic twist at the ending half a
27:32
second later credits roll movie's over
27:34
just like that and what else Michael
27:36
Vincent in Hooper Hooper Bert Reynolds
27:41
okay oh I can type Bert Reynolds into
27:43
everything yeah like that's like your
27:44
Kevin Bacon six de well yeah don't do
27:47
your so how well how I was going to ask
27:49
one more thing how how many of these
27:51
like what's the touring cycle on
27:53
something like this or is there a
27:54
touring cycle so that's what we're
27:56
working on so to tell you the truth the
27:59
way this so now we're we've we've
28:02
completely emptied two full Blockbusters
28:06
one was an ashin that's where these came
28:08
from these are all pre 2004 these are
28:11
after 2004 so now that we've tried to do
28:15
this three or four times these click all
28:18
together very easily so I would imagine
28:20
yeah that the the the uh the shelving
28:24
and all the signage is harder to find
28:26
Than Physical medium you can always find
28:28
physical media so here's where this gets
28:29
tricky this is a like a an added piece
28:34
okay oh to hold that on so that takes us
28:36
an hour now just to mount that on there
28:39
well cuz you have to take your finger
28:40
and get this to oh right yeah yeah yeah
28:42
yeah then you get the pinch he pinches
28:44
your skin now oh yeah I worked retail
28:46
for a long time so I get it that's what
28:48
these are called so these are called the
28:50
rental uh racks we have a whole another
28:54
oh that's that's the piranha remake yeah
28:56
oh yeah actually it's not Cabin Fever
28:58
was pretty good for a newer newer horror
29:01
film even though that's probably like 25
29:03
years ago but newer so your only using
29:05
stuff that is from old Blockbusters so
29:09
yes other than this wall is non
29:12
Blockbuster specific this is more our
29:14
monster video display however we just
29:16
wanted to make sure it was super safe
29:19
that's why we have every couple feet oh
29:22
look at this Titanic a Titanic guy that
29:25
collect if you if you seen the guy on
29:26
Instagram what's a million yeah has he
29:28
has he been in here yet no but I have
29:31
something when he does come in I have
29:32
something for he has
29:34
3,000 Titanic VHS this and trying to get
29:37
to right yeah yeah he's trying to build
29:40
the entire
29:41
ship out of
29:44
vhs's well we've all got to have a hobby
29:46
don't we this is a great movie less than
29:48
zero classic surpr nobody sto that's
29:51
pretty good for five bucks absolutely
29:53
well that's I'm having a hard time
29:55
giving up some of them for Five Point
29:57
Break great so everything in here is $5
29:59
as far as physical media go oh here's a
30:01
good one too crisscross
30:05
crisscross man this is how you know I
30:08
worked at a video store hold on so
30:09
basically somebody would return it you
30:11
would pop it open like this and then you
30:13
would do this and you would check the
30:15
tape to see if the tape was not all bit
30:17
out of shape then you would close it
30:19
back that is that's when you know if
30:20
someone was a a a video store employee
30:23
that they can pop it open hit the little
30:26
thing open it up and then you do the
30:28
trick where you twist it around cuz it
30:30
get stuck or
30:32
broken old video shop right Supermarket
30:35
y remember when you could actually go to
30:37
the supermarket and rent whatever you
30:39
wanted I used to have to go find
30:40
adventures and babysitting at our gas
30:44
station there's a movie that was heavily
30:46
added for Disney plus oh you're right
30:48
you're right and I mean some of the
30:49
stuff in there probably shouldn't be on
30:51
Disney but yeah I mean they chopped it
30:54
up think about Touchstone in general I
30:56
mean pretty woman for God's sake yeah
30:58
right there yeah biggest I think it was
31:00
the biggest touch toown movie they ever
31:02
had I should not have been watching this
31:03
movie oh bachelor party Tom H yeah I
31:06
feel like bachelor party was Porky kind
31:09
of Porky it almost has like the porky
31:11
sty like box cover you know kind of kind
31:13
of saw with a font well what was that
31:15
was that 84 and hor was 82 so I guess
31:17
they figured every two years this was
31:19
this was pre-slash right Splash was
31:21
right after this yeah I didn't even
31:22
notice the popcorn machine up here best
31:25
day of my life so you selling all the
31:27
merch too I think they're selling the
31:28
merch so think I'm might to end up
31:30
getting a shirt oh they even have a
31:32
fanny pack over here hold on a second
31:34
look at the fanny pack here there is a
31:37
freaking Blockbuster Video Bend Oregon
31:39
fanny pack popcorn candle
31:43
lanyards last Blockbuster sticker down
31:47
there those Edward Scissor Hands a
31:49
little floor map and here's the ones
31:51
that were on like like they said when I
31:53
walked in oh you look up here the on
31:56
demand video Cass set rewinder you got
32:00
Blockbuster stuff up top there as well
32:02
even a bucket hat I really like the the
32:04
fanny pack is really really cool all
32:07
right you know what I think I'm probably
32:08
going to get a magnet also there's also
32:10
a VHS ornament over here I think I you
32:13
know I got room for my little magnet
32:15
area maybe I'll get the oh here's like
32:16
your your textbook shirt here there's
32:19
also the be kind re I don't know you
32:21
know what I think I'd probably just
32:22
rather get I probably get this one
32:24
because I don't it's not the LA last
32:26
Blockbuster on the planet because I'm
32:28
not in Bend Oregon but I will get a
32:30
blockbuster I will get one of those I
32:31
think that's what I'm going to end up
32:32
buying evidently this candle smells like
32:36
popcorn popcorn smelled candle
32:41
and to celebrate my one-day employment
32:44
at Blockbuster I'm going to got my name
32:46
I'll give you this back since my shift
32:48
is now over Shi is over we'll see you
32:49
tomorrow morning 9:00 a.m. for your next
32:51
sh all right now that I'm back outside
32:52
now it's all fully open now they got the
32:55
little stanions out front they also have
32:56
the Blockbuster Video Game championship
33:00
and the hour time hours are on now so
33:03
these are the hours are actually on
33:06
Blockbusters
33:12
experience check it out no re-entry I'm
33:12
on the way out nice thank you that was
33:16
really awesome heading home now
33:18
obviously big thanks to Julie who runs
33:21
the place for being so kind for showing
33:23
me around loved it and that's going to
33:27
do it for
33:28
today thanks for watching I'll see you
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