Goodbye To My Bike After Visiting Obscure Back To The Future Filming Location / The Tonka Truck Yard
Sold my Bike January 2021
Transcript
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welcome everyone adam the woo here
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today's adventure will consist of me
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running some errands but i'm not going
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to document those so much it is
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the end route to going to those spots
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and i
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have some ideas that stop off at a few
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places my bicycle
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is going to be going away this is the
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the last moments with the bike that i've
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had
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living here in orange county california
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someone is purchasing it
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and i am delivering it to them a little
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bit later
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but as i stated not before checking out
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a few things in that area
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i'm inviting you to join me shall you
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so remember the first time i tried to
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put the the bike in the back of my
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vehicle
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it took me a while to figure it out but
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kind of dialed it in
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and i'm doing this for the last time
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kind of crunching it in here
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also fueling up need some gas
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before heading out you're right big the
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foot
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that does kind of look like a space pod
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over there
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it's been a heck of a long time since
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i've been out this way
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a few years but any reason
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well there's a bird right there perched
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on that fence any reason to
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to be in this area this neck of the
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woods
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i have to swing by out here you just
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have to
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well i have to way out here on this
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desolate road
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was lion estates 1955
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from the movie back to the future
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where marty pulls the delorean up right
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here
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and looks over at not only
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the billboard of his future home
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but also this field here
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and then a little later pushes the well
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not much later but pushes the car
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through where this gate is
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and behind the billboard which
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stood right here and it's fascinating
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that these three
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fence post these three beams are the
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same ones
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seen on screen
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well you can tell there's a long one on
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that end and a long one on the far end
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and a short one
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in the middle meaning that the billboard
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was right there
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exactly oh my goodness is that an owl
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is that a baby owl okay i'm gonna step
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back because
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your mama might be whoop your mama might
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be around and i don't want
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okay i'm gonna i'm gonna leave you be
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baby owl i don't want to be
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i don't want your mama to come come find
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me just checking out the back to future
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spot
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you are so cute i brought along my
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little
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miniature time machine delorean got it
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placed kind of
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not not precisely on the the pavement
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down to the inch but more or less in the
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same
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the same general vicinity here
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where he cruises along here hits the
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brakes
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pretty neat still pretty much looks the
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same very
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very empty terrain out here you finally
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invented
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something that worked
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it works i wanted to show an example
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what i was talking about with those
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poles look
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right there towards the bottom you can
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see the middle pole
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and the the shorter pole there on the
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the one end and then the far end is the
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the longer pole and now you can see
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exactly
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what i'm referring to let me zoom in
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there you go that sums it up
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there's also a behind-the-scenes photo
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of zemeckis and michael j
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fox sitting on a tree stump
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a log of sorts right along this fence
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line
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and it has baffled me for a long time
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and i can never
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find it i don't know exactly where it is
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but it was right along here you can
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prominently see it there that they're
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sitting
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on on either end and there's those metal
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poles
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which leads me to believe it in the
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trees in the background
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that it was off kind of in this
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direction see with the incline of the
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the little the little ditch there so it
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could have been right in here
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no stumps anymore all been been torn out
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but there are the metal poles your guess
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is as good as mine
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it's a mystery where that that stump is
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this is kind of looking from the
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perspective of what you don't see the
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camera's facing the opposite way
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so imagine i was in the delorean hold on
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a second
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hold on i need to do this correctly
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so this is the this is how
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he would have if you were looking from
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his perspective
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driving in and confusion he went
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underneath this very unique looking tree
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that could be
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seen pulled up another 100 yards and
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then
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skid to a stop now see this looks like
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the same
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type of the wood from the tree
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there so it definitely was in this area
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and i'm thinking maybe it could have
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been next to this tree
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that you see in the film because there
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was an angle
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where marty is walking up
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this way and there is a water tower way
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off in the distance
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that can also be seen this debris and
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foliage here but there
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are some that look very similar
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including this one
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it's not as as lengthy but it does have
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that little pop-up on the end
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yeah i'm a nerd i'm a total nerd that
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i'm even i'm looking for
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or could have just been tossed up into
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this heap up in here it's tough to say
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all right moving on a little recreation
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in progress i'm not going to get it up
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to 88 because that means i have to get
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my vehicle up to 88 through here and
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that's probably
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probably frowned upon big the foot i
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know you want me to
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it's it's gusty out here it's a little
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bit of a breeze i have both the windows
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open
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okay you're stabilizing now lie in the
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states 55
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right there's those metal poles i was
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referring to
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right here oh i'm wrong it's up here
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another
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oh dang it it's up here just
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just a few more
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there it is
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also there's that water tower i was
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referring to when he's walking towards
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hill valley right before he goes to the
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town square
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he's walking down this road if you look
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off to the side and to have a keen eye
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you can see that water tower a fun fact
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take a look for it next time
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if you feel like it take a look at this
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that's so cool one place i've always
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wanted to see
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but it has eluded me is here in mira
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loma
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it is the tonka truck yard
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it appears as if there's a gentleman out
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in
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the yard itself watering the tree
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and watering
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the trucks perhaps take a look
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at this there
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there is a plethora of tonka trucks
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wow and they stretch all the way back
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as well it's like thousands of them
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tucked away under that that tree
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very impressive this states tonka
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parking only all others will be
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bulldozed
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there's a whole patch of them back there
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as well as the one that are in the front
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of the yard
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oh yeah even even over there they're
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just all
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kind of hidden in all the little areas
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walked over to the farthest point here
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where they
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where they start just kind of go along
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the perimeter
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it is very very very windy
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it's just kind of all along the the edge
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there
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and then goes goes past his home
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the other end the dog barking back there
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an assortment of other vehicles down in
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as well there's a regular truck there
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there's a
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jeep down there a cruiser
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oh look at that van it's like a van in
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the back of that one
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how many of them do you have
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a thousand and twenty eight uh
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no i'm not familiar with them caltech
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laboratories yeah this
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one is a space shuttle
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but usually they're stamped in here
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somewhere
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it's made usa now some like that one
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there and this one is some of them stamp
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made in mexico
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someone made in china right but uh
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these
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this kind of
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fence here and people started stopping
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and looking around
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taking pictures off
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yeah about all i could find and then uh
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garage sales and stuff and then people
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started to bring them and just giving
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them to me
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oh people would drop them off yeah
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have you ever downsized any of them or
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you still have all of them you've always
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well give a couple of them away
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two guys come by here one day and they
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said they were going for an orphanage in
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tijuana and they had four young kids
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like
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eight ten-year-old
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they wanted to kids for them to to give
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to
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each one of those boys a tonka toy
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and so i said if you're going to spend
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the money for the gas
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and spend the effort to go down there
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and do that
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you know and so i said if you're gonna
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do that i'll give you four you don't
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have to buy
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so i give them four of the nicest ones i
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could find
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and they took them i guess that's where
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they said they were going
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yeah and then a lady stopped out here
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one day and
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had a little six-year-old kid in the
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back seat of her car
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always along the fence here and she said
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look says tomorrow's
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his birthday and i only got
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six dollars but i wanted to buy one and
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if you
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sell it to me for six dollars i i wanted
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to buy it
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so we buy it we'll come by every day and
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he sees them and you just love them and
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he wants one
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so
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you just keep your six dollars and wish
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them a happy birthday for me
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excellent i was very nice of you new
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york
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where i've been contacted by people all
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over the world
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they made me famous in the taco world
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but you know
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would you say you have the biggest
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collection of tonka trucks that there is
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or is someone with more
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the largest private collection okay
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all right so museum i've as far as a
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private collection
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all right well thanks for talking to me
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what was your name
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jim my name's adam all right jim
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jim is my dad's name my dad's name is
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jim so it's a familiar name
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j.i.m that's good yeah it's a good name
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james
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i used to know two brothers their names
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were jim and james
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the same name but they were called jim
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and james that was they had they were
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two different brothers but they were
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one's name was jim and the other was
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they're very unusual but that's what
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their names were that's what their
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parents named them
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jim and james shorten it to jim
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all right jim i appreciate it thanks for
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talking to me that was awesome really
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nice guy gave me a lot of information
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and really appreciate him talking to me
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like that showing me his collection
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i know big the foot i never see oh
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there's a horse there's a horse
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i've never seen that many taco trucks
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before in my life in a yard
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and just down the way is a few miles
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check this out
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i can see you're excited i am too
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you're kind of blocking gumby though
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yeah
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look gumby
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right here in the side of someone else's
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yard
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and their homestead gumby himself a very
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large
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looks to be about seven or eight feet
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tall maybe even 10
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foot tall gumby
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classic harlow a lot of people riding
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horses around here
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covering quite a bit of ground today
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there still is one last spot i want to
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check out before
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dropping my bike off to its new owner
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historical landmark marker 500 feet
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ahead
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here in riverside 500 feet
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this way underneath that netting
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which is there to protect it
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is a naval orange tree that spawned
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every naval orange anywhere
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in southern california they are all
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i guess you could say descendants of
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this tree
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right here it all started with this
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tree oh here we go we have a information
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placard
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right down here
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to commemorate the introduction of the
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first
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oh this says marsh grapefruit trees into
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california okay marsh
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grapefruit it's not navel oranges let me
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zoom in a little
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brought to riverside back in 1890 from
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lakeland florida almost like it's almost
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like a transplant like i
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am i don't know though that looks like
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those look like oranges maybe there was
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a grapefruit tree
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on site as well
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ah-ha there is that is what i'm looking
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for
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right there this states to honor mrs
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eliza
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tibets to commend her
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good work in planting this let me zoom
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in a little bit the first washington
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navel orange
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tree in california
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the most valuable fruit introduction yet
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made
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in the u.s department of agriculture 19
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and 20 and it still stands
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right here under this
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protective netting
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you can even see a few up in there if
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you look closely
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if you enjoyed this particular episode i
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covered quite a bit of ground quite a
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bit of miles i am about
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now to go drop off the bicycle that i
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have been using for a pretty good i put
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quite a few miles on it it is still in
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great shape
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i'm gonna go it's i'm gonna say goodbye
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to that bike and and could carry on do
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not have room
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at my homestead with the downsizing so i
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have to say
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say goodbye can be such sweet sorrow
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if you enjoyed this particular episode
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and what what you saw it was neat
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interviewing
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talking to the gentleman with the tonka
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trucks also seeing gumby
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and his pal there i'm drawing a blank on
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gumby's
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friend there on the other side of the
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yard and the other
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variety of items that i showed in this
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episode
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out into out into the where the back to
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the future
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1955 you know where marty's
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area was i'm trying to forget everything
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that i have done because i have covered
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quite a bit
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if you enjoy this give it give it a big
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thumbs up
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i'm kind of distracted about losing the
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bike but it's okay
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we'll carry on life is all about
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progress
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i'll see you in the next video the vlog
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there's that
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that's the first naval tree the naval
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orange tree
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if you eat enough of them make your
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navel feel good the vlog