Move To Bremerton, We’ll Hang Out - My Last Day In The Pacific Northwest / An MXPX Kinda Town
Bremerton Washington
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welcome everyone Adam the Wu here has a
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recording of the Sunday
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February 12
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2023 I am crossing the road here
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I'm a big fan of pop punk music started
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off in early 90s doesn't do a lot of
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radio Rock got into some heavier type of
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stuff grunge whatnot and then started to
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Branch off into Epitaph records into Dr
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Strange records and two fat records and
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also other different record labels that
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put stuff out tooth and nail
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and I have since the mid 90s I've always
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wanted to know what was in this town
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today I'm gonna find out
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what is in
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Bremerton
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Washington the home the stomping grounds
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the starting point
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of MX PX
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moved to Bremerton off of life in
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general 96 I believe that album came out
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and ever since I've heard that song
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created probably a thousand times I
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always wanted to know what the heck
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was here and if it was a real place and
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I am here to announce
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it exists
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no real Rhyme or Reason what I'm doing
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here but I saw the signs in the last
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week to 10 days I've been in the Pacific
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Northwest a couple times I passed by on
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the freeway the interstate where it
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shows the name of the town I thought
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I gotta go I'm inviting you to join me
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as I look around brimington
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Washington
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move to Bremerton we'll hang out
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that's the lyrics of the song
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shall you
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and not just the band history and band
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stuff but others take it look at this
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bus stop this is Kitsap County kind of
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going into this with not a whole heck of
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a lot of a notion what is here now I do
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know they did a couple music videos in
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town they moved to Bremerton and also
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one ad which I believe was the first
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video they ever did so we can see if I
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could watch the videos and kind of
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pinpoint show where some of those spots
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are now two of the founding members went
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to high school here or in the next
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little town over and I think that's in
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some of the music videos also so
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possibly I can watch those
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and then drive around to see if I can
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find someone so I might not find
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anything spoiler alert I might not find
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anything but if I don't I'll just show
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what the town is about and just get the
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vibes
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Bremerton Washington
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it's a great day it's nice also this is
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my last full day in the Pacific
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Northwest
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before
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traveling cross country
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starting tomorrow
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to a different location all right see
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what I can find with a lot of the areas
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around here very hilly
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lots of hills
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see if they have a downtown
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I would imagine this place has kind of a
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tiny little downtown area I'm assuming
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correctly take a look at this place
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Gyros Etc to go
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and there's a lounge right here
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I have no bearings on what exactly is
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around here just kind of figure it out
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as I go there is this little stretch of
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road right here which you can consider
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to be downtown
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now the band was given the key to the
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city
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while back
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after their popularity kind of grew a
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little bit
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you're wondering what this is at first
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I'm looking at it almost looks like
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someone with a guitar
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painted up there but I can't I guess
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it's up for oh yeah it is someone with a
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guitar
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Charleston also 333 Calo that must be
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the name of the road
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and some bands play here possibly they
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played here I'm about to look it up and
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see
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they played inside this
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this Bill had some punk rock shows in
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there
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is an old barber shop sign this Barber
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Shop's not here anymore it's now burrito
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restaurant a really cool old signage
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barber shop
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and across the way is Smitty's place
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which is a tattoo spot
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there's a nice little clock here
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this is the downtown doesn't really look
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like to be it's like really too thriving
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even though there's a lot of traffic
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going through here because it is a main
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thoroughfare
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over across the way there's a great
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old service station it's an auto part of
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report repair place I'm having trouble
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talking
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auto repair place
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got a locking key place here locksmith
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Keys locks safes but also have some
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bikes and BMX bikes reminds me of the
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want ad video that they put out here in
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town they recorded it
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and they were they were all on BMX style
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bikes the big tall handlebars
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seeing these bikes kind of reminds me of
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that
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it's kind of hard to match up anything
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from that video though because it's
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really just kind of like Alleyways and
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whatnot the Charleston clock dated 1928
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was presented to the county
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well it was put on the Historical
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Society in 2002 but it's been here since
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1928.
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take a look at that thing and that is
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the correct time sometimes you see
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clocks that aren't really working this
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one is the correct time at this moment
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it is 1pm I really like the look of this
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storefront doesn't look like anything's
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in there but I just like the way the has
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the brick little indentation there
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quite a few tattoo places on this trip
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it's actually the second or third one
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just on this little block
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I wonder how many magnified plaid
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tattoos they've slung in their day
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which has how mxpx got its name first
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they were magnified plaid but putting it
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on concert flyers for shows promote
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themselves sometimes the words were too
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long so they just did m dot P Dot but
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the drummer in school instead of putting
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periods he would put X's so it became m
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x p x instead of m dot
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pdot mxpx magnify plaid with x's all
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right as it turns out that area was
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walking around it was just on the
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outskirts of town there is
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a more active
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downtown area a lot more bustling
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there's a Roxy Theater here
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so I found a parking spot and I'm just
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going to walk around that's kind of a
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general layout of the land here as well
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fact they have the you are here section
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on it
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right here it shows exactly where I'm
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standing in front
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of a very cool old theater side here the
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Roxy
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with the neon and everything on the
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Marquee even illuminated at this hour
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even a sweet skate shop here too called
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location skate shop
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wondering what this is up on the corner
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also what is this it's like a sewer
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manhole there's like a little sculpture
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up here though it's like a fisherman
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I was wearing a fisherman's jacket oh
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and then over here oh this is
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interesting there is a fish with a
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fishing pole it appears as if the fish
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is catching the fisherman oh
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when the pupil becomes the master I
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think it's the phrase
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look that fish is fishing for the
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fishermen it's got a hook in its mouth
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up there
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that's different it's just mural here
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and this plane is carrying a banner that
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says Harry Truman on it has the Navy
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Yard produce and all that as well
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these are some of the sights and sounds
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you can see around here
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this
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blue-footed booby
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this metal structure here in the road
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and there's another one
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across the way there it looks like
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someone with an umbrella
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the Admiral Theater has the date on
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there Sunday February 12th it's 1 28
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it's 49 degrees
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hosted at mxpx Reunion in there last
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year so they were just in town recently
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within the last year or so
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fact here's the flyer for it right there
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the artistic rendering
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of what the Admiral looks like modern
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day
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little Hometown show time throw down if
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you will all right I stand corrected it
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was actually 2015. it wasn't last year
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it was like seven eight years ago well
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eight years ago now
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that they played in there
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check out this artwork here of the
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Pokemon oversized punkinach or polka
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naturopunk I almost said pumpkin at your
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puck
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is their mascot's name
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taking over the Admiral Theater there
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also this place is on the National
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Registry of historic places not the
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Admiral
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but the McHale Center
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named after Deacon Max Hale
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dedicated in 1996.
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and placed on the National Registry
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right here
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this building across the way looks like
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it could have been an old theater at 1.2
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see the little overhang here in this
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little circular thing maybe it's
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Apartments now I'm not really too sure
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but
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it could have been or maybe I just say
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unique architecture for a shopping
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center perhaps
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I just talked to a really nice local
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gentleman back there younger guy
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and asked him if he knew any of the mxpx
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spots and he said
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that the
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the move to brimington video a lot of it
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was filmed in Seattle
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well they pulled the wool over our eyes
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they didn't like there's a there's a
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scene where a trolley goes by that's in
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Seattle and a couple it even the show
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the space needle which I thought maybe
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you would be able to see from across the
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water but we're not close enough to see
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it from here they would have had to go
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over in the parking lot to show the
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Space Needle in Seattle
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why is the song called move to Seattle
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fail that while in town get myself a
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piping hot caffeinated beverage
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the local gentleman was also saying that
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a lot of this area has changed
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dramatically
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since the 90s
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the fact he was saying that possibility
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one of the signs that says welcome to
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Bremerton was right over there I'll see
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if I can match it up it looks like it
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looks a lot different than it is here
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where the fairy docks caffeine achieved
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there is a seagull right here that might
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want to taste
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piping out caffeinated beverage
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no
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more of a cold coffee kind of seagull
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huh not a hot coffee I get it
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I understand why a lot of people drink
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coffee in the Pacific Northwest though
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seagull I really do you are a big bird
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not the big bird Sesame Street but you
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are a rather large bird
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all right I'm gonna go see if I can
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match this up all right
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now there were a couple scenes in that
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video that were here in town
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but noticeably a lot weren't which is
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kind of disappointing
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because I have the the song etched in my
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head I always wanted to know what the
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town was like they didn't really feature
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it as much as they could have
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this says welcome to Bremerton
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which kind of alludes to the photo that
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I'm trying to match up where
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Mike is walking and the rest of the band
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is walking out underneath the side it
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has shown here so it still has the right
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phrasing obviously and this looks like
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it could have been the old dog this is
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mid 90s obviously so
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they probably have come changed it up
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quite a bit
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where the ferry there's a lot of the
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music video filmed on the ferry too from
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Seattle over here who I also see a ship
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over there which could have been in the
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video I'm going to walk over there and
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take a look at the ship there but this
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is obviously where the ferry docks going
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across from Seattle and other places
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into Bremerton
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and I'm thinking maybe right here is
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where that sign was you know decades
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three decades later
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things have changed here's a photo of
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them getting the key to the city a few
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years ago too well quite a few years ago
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as well the three of them
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um
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getting closer to the shore so I could
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hear a lot of seagulls
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and something that is in town when they
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get off the ferry from Seattle they walk
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over to the the old 951 ship here
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and that's still over here I just
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checked the numbers the same same one so
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they walked on this railing okay that's
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kind of neat still has the 951 looks
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like it's parked in the exact same place
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as it was in the mid 90s
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over there they're walking along this
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railing
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and I would assume none of these condos
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and apartments were here back there
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and 96 95 96 97 somewhere around there
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even though the ship is still parked in
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the
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same spot so they do show a couple of
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landmarks
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from their Hometown in that video
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see if I can find a couple more
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it's a beautiful area you can definitely
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see the appeal of living here
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there's another spot I've been kind of
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intently looking at in the want ad video
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where they're playing on top of a roof
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now this could be a perimeter it could
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be in Seattle it could be in another
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suburb but it kind of looks like where
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I'm at however it zooms in you can see
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the band is up on top of the roof here
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you can even see Yuri's drum kit set up
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in that corner and they're all running
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around their bass guitar regular guitar
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and drumsticks however this building in
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correlation the scene right before it
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pans down from this I don't know which
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Shoreline this is
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thankfully there is this I kind of look
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on satellite view but there's this
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discover Bremerton
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and maybe the shoreline could be here
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but that would mean that the building
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there on the roof is is here the only
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one that's an L-shaped is this but it's
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the opposite L-shaped and the roof does
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not match up
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accordingly so it's kind of confusing I
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could drive over there and look but I
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don't yeah I don't know
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I think that's it
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because if it's panning from here
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over to there I don't know if that's it
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and it wouldn't be from over here
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because that does not look like the same
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angle of the shoreline very difficult
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there's not a whole lot of information
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out there about this again this is what
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it looks like
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it could be over there where I wear the
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ferry boat docks
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or it's not a very boat with the
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boat goes from Seattle and across the
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moves the vehicles and people and that's
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the roof there yeah the only so you see
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the blue dot is where I'm at at the
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moment
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but down here that's the only L-shaped
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building but it's not in the proper
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L-shaped
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from the video would be the opposite way
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with the shoreline up there so I don't
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even think that was in Bremerton either
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so you should be facing that Direction
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with the shoreline at the top of the
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screen there
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that's a mystery that's a mystery one
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thing I really like about doing videos
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is putting information out there that I
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possibly
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don't even know and you know people can
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chime in and others can kind of take
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what I've discovered and then also do
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their own Recon work and their own
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research people that are interested in
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certain subject matters and we can all
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kind of figure it out together over time
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this is not the end-all end-all the
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history of Bremerton and mxpx maybe just
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the start
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of some deep Cuts
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but I would like to know some of the
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stuff that I'm wondering about over time
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what a beautiful view over there
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there's another
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town over there now I cannot be
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completely 100 confident
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this was the Kmart
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but they were the three of them were
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kind of riding around on the shopping
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cart but I talked to the guy downtown
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and he said this used to be a Kmart
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about two miles from now still in
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and it does kind of look like it but you
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know
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nearly three decades of time have kind
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of changed us a little bit but they
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grabbed a shopping cart over here
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I think Mike was kind of pushing it and
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they all jumped in on top of it and they
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kind of rode across here to completely
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see the Kmart side
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in the in the video all right now that
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I'm looking at this it looks as if they
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run across the street into the parking
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lot
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and then jump on the shopping cart and
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there's the
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there's the Kmart top of the Kmart you
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can see the Kmart shopping cart right
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there so they started they ran across
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this now kind of busy road across the
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way there
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and then to the Kmart Shopping Center
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so they did that's another another spot
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that is in town
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on the outskirts though it's about two
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or three miles from where I just was
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they would have started over there ran
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across and now that I'm looking at it
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you can even see that the tree lines
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over here match up and these these kind
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of poles here where they kind of go buy
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it and then over that way it's just way
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zoomed in and then they jump on the
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shopping cart
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and this even the even this has been
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remodeled just a little bit it's a deep
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cut I know but
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it's fun to do this stuff heading over
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now about a six or seven mile commute
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farther away from Bremerton and past
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where the seven or the
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Kmart was
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see the mountains off in the distance
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this is where the bass player singer and
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drummer met and started the band where
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I'm heading now from what I heard this
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entire facility has been remodeled a
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couple years ago
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2019 I believe it was
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hopefully the main entrance is still
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here it was shown in the video
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maybe something will match up and now
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that I'm looking at it it looks like the
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answer is no
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doesn't look anything
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like it did in the mid 90s they
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completely remodeled this whole place
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including the stairwell and everything
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that they ran down in the video but
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that's what it looked like then
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you see they're all kind of running down
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there returning to
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where they started the the band
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in fact they recorded before they even
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got out of school and as soon as they
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got done and graduated they hit the road
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loaded up the van and started touring
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should also be noted that that last
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location was up in Silverdale another
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non-grimmerton
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from that video
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picking up a theme Here
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I had hoped I'd have a little better
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luck
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with today they can't all be home runs
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but I did try
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had no real major game plan
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sometimes it works out where you find
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things as the day progresses
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the day was not one of those moments
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but I did it I went to Bremerton I
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didn't move to Bremerton
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I didn't see any of the guys from mxpx
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around either where's that camera going
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leaning forward there we go
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a lot a lot of mysteries still around
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the history of mxpx there
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I've seen some of the documentaries I
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think there's one called it came from
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Bremerton there's also like a not Behind
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the Music but there's something that
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kind of shows a little history
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and whatnot of the Bands
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also they played their first show in the
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backyard Mike's backyard
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be interesting to figure out
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if that house still exists
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and if he still lives there or not
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because he invited everyone in the song
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to show up and he would hang out with
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them moved to Bremerton we'll hang out
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of the end of time I think is what the
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lyrics are also my favorite mxpx album
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is slowly going the way of the Buffalo I
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think that's my favorite one and when I
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was in a band called gutter mouth he's
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playing a punk band a few different punk
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bands
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I think it was 2014
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Amnesia Rock Fest played bass a couple
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tours of gutter mouth and we played with
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Blink-182 back when Tom was in the band
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before he quit the band now he's back in
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the band
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and no effects play Big Festival
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one of my last shows with the band
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before before I quit the band and
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focused more
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dedicated to YouTube I was doing YouTube
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before that but I really didn't want to
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do anything else except YouTube
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but we played with mxpx it's pretty
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awesome
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all right I'll see the next video the
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