Dinosaur World in Plant City Florida is Huge & Really Bizarre - First Time Back In Almost 10 Years
Dinosaur World Plant City FL
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welcome everyone
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adam the woo here as a recording of this
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monday august 22nd 2022
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i have an appropriate carrying bag
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and an appropriate hat because i will be
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going to a game a little bit later this
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evening tampa bay raiser taking on a
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team i used to root for last year last
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year other than both places i lived in
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anaheim and i lived here in celebration
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so when i was on either coast i would go
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to a lot of home games at tropicana
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field or angel stadium the los angeles
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angels of anaheim
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now i am full on raise i don't think
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i've enjoyed rooting for a team more
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anytime in my entire life so i am i'm
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definitely on the rays train but it will
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be very interesting seeing the angels
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play at the trap something i have never
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done this video will not be about the
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game itself
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even though i might i'd film just a
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little bit of at the end of this video
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because trout might be in for the angels
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and ohtani who's let's face it probably
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one of the best baseball players to come
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along in the last couple of decades
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i will be going down i-4
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documenting the traverse-ness over to
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saint pete but also going to dinosaur
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world a place i have not been in about
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10 years dinosaur world which i think is
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in not haines city
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lake city
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where is dinosaur world it's about the
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halfway point it's 45 miles
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from here
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i'm inviting you to join me i probably
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should have looked up the exact
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distance first
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shall you now first pitch is until 7 pm
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so i got plenty of time
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to roam around in the prehistoric era of
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the dinosaurs
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it's gonna take me about an hour to get
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over there at least though then after
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that another hour hour and a half to get
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over to the chop i'm noticing here
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on the minute hand obviously i've showed
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this before
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but is the bike and then the hour hand
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is the dog
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but if you notice on this side of the
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clock
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nothing
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just the minute and hour hand
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no bike
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no dog there's also an oversized clock
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right there on market street all these
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cars are parked here can people use the
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atm here at the bank
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all right we get moving and the price of
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gas here in celebration florida at the
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7-eleven that has the very art deco look
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3.39 a gallon also i ended up getting
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some icelandic glacier water
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seems like the price of gas is going
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down a little bit very very very
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slowly yeah i just love
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i just love the 7-eleven so much look at
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that thing i-4 westbound going very very
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smooth which is nice
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i always try to head over to the tampa
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saint pete area earlier than 2 p.m
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this traffic starts to get pretty bad
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around that point
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i just looked it up plant city is where
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dinosaur world is
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and it's 46 miles from here to there
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that's stop number one the longest shot
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there it is
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and you can tell big the foot jiggling
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like that is very very excited
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open daily
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from nine to five
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look at this place
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yeah it has been a long time over 10
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years well
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about 10 years it may have been less
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than 10 years but let's just say let's
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just call it 10 years
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since i have driven through these gates
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i'm back
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hey it's very sunny and very toasty out
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here today but thankfully there's a nice
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little breeze going on
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not sure what that noise is but i think
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it's the flagpole
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i have passed this place so many times
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yes i was here many many years ago
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but i always pass this on i-4 when i'm
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going to the truck and i figured it was
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just about time
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for a revisit
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please do not touch the dinos and stand
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behind the rope
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got a series of benches over here
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and next to the bench there is a dino
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hatching
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as well
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oh i think i'm a little too big for this
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but if i wanted to rent this
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prehistoric creature in an eggshell
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i could
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do not leave valuables
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and or purses in the vehicle
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okay i have paid the 1999 plus tax and
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gained entry
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into
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a world of
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dinos
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i also bought a
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little bag for a dollar of fish food
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it's a very very small bag very very
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small bag
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but you know i didn't want to overdo
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feeding the fish but there's some fish
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in here that i'm gonna feed so 19.99
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plus tax for admission and then a dollar
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for the fish food here is a general
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layout of the land obscured
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by the fish food i am here
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where the excess
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circle the restroom facilities and this
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is the only indoor section
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which
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is right over there
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okay i made it inside the one building
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this is the museum other than the gift
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shop the gift shop is also a building
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and i'm hearing the roar of some sort of
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creature this is a tiger shark jaw by
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the way in this little glass case and a
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triceratops
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toe
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look at this the foot of an allosaurus
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right here
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oh no way they have animatronics in here
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okay they just stopped they were making
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some noise for oh
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what the
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yes
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that i didn't i was not expecting
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animatronics i had forgotten that they
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had animatronics in here i love this so
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much
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anything that moves
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you know that's not a real thing that
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moves and makes makes noises like this
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sign me up for
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kind of similar to the same types of
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items they have in the jurassic boat
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ride in pigeon forge tennessee one of my
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personal favorite roadside attractions
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oh
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you're wagging your tail over there that
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must mean you're friendly
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i like that
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i'm gonna go outside now back in back
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out in the heat
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it's good
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okay that pterodactyl same sound effect
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as a jurassic boat riding pigeon forge
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same sound effect
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or if there's a correlation
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you're shaking your head yes i knew i
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knew that sound before all the different
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theories here of how they became extinct
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the alien theory
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the meteor theory
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and some say
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they never existed at all oh wow
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it's like the eraser's
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kind of getting being erased from
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existence back outside now
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there's a little dino bone
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you could go through
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and also you can see
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the traffic of i-4 going past in the
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distance
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got to look way up to see these long
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neck creatures
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i do like this place a lot especially
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just kind of how it has that kind of old
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tiny feel in a lot of ways like the
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wooden
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you know cutouts all over here in the
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picnic area
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and this is a monday i don't know if the
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weekends are any busier but it's really
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not a lot of people here there are a
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couple people wandering around but
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not too many i'd say maybe at the most
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a dozen people here
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this one was heavily armored on the
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upper part of its body from the nose to
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tail with bony plates
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it's like a whole family of them
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uo
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pelosi
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phalas you oppose pelosi phallus and
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even though i went through the parking
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area gate
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walked about 100 yards into where i'm at
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now there is another gate
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behind me here
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a couple different gates
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oh look down there
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like etched in the side there
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oh and then there is
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another one overlooking i4
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okay can't go this way this is
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interesting i think i've ever seen
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anything like this
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i guess you can't get over there and not
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only they just put like a temporary
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thing up they've completely walled this
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off fence this off
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interesting
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look over there there's a
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dino head
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and legs the neck is the roof line
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those two pillars are the legs and the
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feet
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there's the noggin
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okay that's weird
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this building abandoned
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just sitting over here desolate
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that looks so cool
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a dino head just popping out of the
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foliage
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ah here it goes here goes okay this is
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this must be the front
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in the unlikely event of a dyno attack
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please deserve the following safety
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guide guidelines run
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and secondly
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keep running
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looks like they have some sort of a show
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here
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i am here
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so this is basically the larger version
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of the same map i was given a printed
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out of where the star is is where i'm at
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i'm gonna keep carrying on looks like
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they're also doing some maintenance over
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there
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repainting one of them
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also like this they're giving
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information on what some of the foliage
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is like a southern wood fern
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i definitely don't have a green thumb so
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it's nice when things are pointed out to
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me
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oh there's another one over there
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looming in the shadows okay this is a
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different species this is a long neck
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marine
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plessiasaur
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about half of its length is from the
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head to the neck the neck had
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76
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vertebrae and that is what that is over
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lounging in the water
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and then next to that is the
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mosasaurus
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also not a dinosaur but the first of its
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kind found
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it is known only from a huge head and
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enormous long jaws filled
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with sharp teeth i could get a better
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view of the sharp teeth here
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look at that thing
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that's pretty cool right there in the
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little water area
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i think maybe they're not pressure
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washing might be painting there's a
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definitely wafting over here is a
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is an intense paint smell i don't want
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to go over that way
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i do like how shaded this is
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it's very very shaded i was expecting to
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be wandering around
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through the direct sun but there's a lot
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of shade which i'm very very thankful
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for
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oh i do remember this
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look at this scene
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you know i'll be going out to california
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soon into early september i'll be out
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there for a few events
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i should probably pop into universal
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not just for hhn but also to go on
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jurassic world i really like what
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they've done with jurassic world this is
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getting me back in the dyno move
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i think i'm going to when i'm out there
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i think i'm gonna have to do that
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the iguanodon
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a family of them
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now this food says it's a quarter
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the bag i got was a dollar maybe they
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give me more
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either way i got some fish right here
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i'm gonna feed the fish see if i can
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find some koi or whatever other fish
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are down in here i almost forgot about
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the fish food until i saw that sign
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gotta hold on to this baggie
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i'm just gonna pour a little bit in
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there just a couple little
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little pellets
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okay i'm just gonna dump all this in
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feeding time
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i think the swamp land and the water
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really adds to it
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kind of adds to the ambiance and the
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feel of this place
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just having the water going by as well
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ah now i know what these are it's the
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trash can
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right there is the trash receptacle
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let's throw that in there
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thank you
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okay look over here
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ah
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okay this is interesting
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there are some
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pterodactyl floating flying around over
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there on the wires
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sharp teeth
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yeah right over there check it out
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okay not pterodactyls
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but a flying reptile these animals range
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in size from that of a sparrow to a hawk
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this one's gnawing on the tree
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the stegosaurus
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look at that his face embedded right in
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the bark of that tree
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some of these i do not know what they
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are referred to as
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thankfully there's a lot of signage out
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i recognize these
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these are very fast
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a little waterfall over there is very
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effervescently flowing
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pumping out the water and
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very rapidly
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one thing i'm noticing about these
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they're very serious faces
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very serious
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this looks like there'd be something out
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of a fantasy film
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these down here
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there's a lot of areas down this little
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wooden trail
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that are kind of
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something should be had like a horror
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film
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i mean kind of
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these ones are just gnawing on that one
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over there
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there are a lot
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of figures in here
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they really are
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they're looking at something up in the
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tree oh no they're looking over here
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maybe that's the enemy
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there's about to be a scuffle so just
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out of nowhere
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you know these are lurking in the shrubs
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and then shaplam
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right there in the mouth right there in
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the teeth now this is said to be the
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largest of the dinos
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and it has a very interesting face of
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interesting head like up on the forehead
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let me zoom in
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it almost has like armor around above
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the nose and between the eyes
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i saw the rest of the grouping of this
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one a little bit earlier
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oh there's a skeleton garden up here
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skeleton garden okay this is the sign
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when i pulled off the exit off i-4
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this is where the exit is so the exit
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pulls off right here i'm recognizing
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this from the back side this is not the
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back side of water but the back side
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of the side
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i really like the sign right here
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and then you go through this corridor
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yeah this is what's behind that exit
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sign
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i was trying to put my finger on
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what this reminds me of it reminds me a
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lot of the former bedrock city just
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outside the grand canyon kind of reminds
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me a bit a little bedrock city-ish
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kinda sorta
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i don't know why i'm getting that vibe
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but it just hit me all of a sudden
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in fact if you told me some of the same
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people that worked on that place might
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have worked on this one
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i probably would not argue with you i
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would probably believe that that was the
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case it just kind of has that that same
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feel
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right
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swamp cabbage the sable palmetto
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native florida state tree
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over here appears to be just a rather
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large foot just the foot itself
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femur bone to quote the birds with tom
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hanks he's talking the neighbor
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that's a femur it's a femur bone
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just looking over the hedges over there
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i don't think those are friendly
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there's also a lot of gnats out here
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it doesn't help that i'm sweating i
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think gnats are attracted to sweat
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they're like all around my face
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definitely
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is a rather large property
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i will definitely say that
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kind of wish there were more
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animatronics i love animatronics
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but i guess you really can't have
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animatronics out in the elements of the
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florida heat and the rain and the storms
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and hurricanes
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and the wind
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but there are a lot of prehistoric
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creatures in here which is really
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awesome
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yeah that's pretty neat
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all the mammoths back there
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all right see you later mammoth i think
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i've about reached the end anna's about
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to exit through the gift shop
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there is a claw machine here
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properly themed dollar bills only no
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change given
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i have a dollar i might try to get give
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me one i looked at my wallet and i had a
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buck
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all right there goes gotta utilize
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the claw
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yeah
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back out in the parking lot now i exited
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through the gift shop
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and i will say the gift shop had a lot
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of little souvenirs and mementos
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the only thing i ended up getting was
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another water it was kind of thirsty
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walking around in there
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but they had quite a few you know
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pertaining to the subject matter they
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had a lot of dinos all around they had a
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lot of really good t-shirts
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one t-shirt in particular perusing the
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t-shirts i really wanted but they did
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not have any
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in my size so i wasn't able to get the
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the t-rex when i wanted but i would have
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bought this one if they had it in my
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size but they were all smaller sizes and
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continuing to stay hydrated i polished
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off the one i got earlier when i was
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getting gas and now i got an aquafina
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pure water
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so it says and gonna continue my commute
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over to tampa and then over the tampa
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bridge into saint pete
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and to the trap
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i'm not gonna film much of the game
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though i'm just kind of kind of enjoy it
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but i might get a clip or two made it
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over to saint pete now one thing i will
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say about saint pete there are a lot of
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murals on all the buildings
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a lot
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of the buildings around here have
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paintings on them like these
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a lot of them and here's another example
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is that felix right there
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that's a felix
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and then there's donald check it out
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donald duck
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right there
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and someone on a bike
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a couple donald's is a donald there
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donald there
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garfield
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even pluto over there
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look at this
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there's a pelican
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mandy look at the pelican
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fly pelican
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it's a quote movie quote yeah just so
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many buildings have artwork on them i
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think it's awesome
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it's like an alien a skeleton looking
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alien over here oh it's called melty
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skull
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and there's even a marilyn monroe as
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well
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right here on the side of this theater
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playhouse theater
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i never knew this was here before
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i feel like i've lived uh if i lived a
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lot closer
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to st pete i probably would get here
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just before first pitch
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first pitch is at seven
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but not wanting to deal with the backup
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on the horrendous always under
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construction in certain parts
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i-4
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from orlando well celebration to tampa
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i always try to get here a lot earlier
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thankfully i can get in two hours early
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if i go through the parks and rec gate
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and wait another half hour and then 90
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minutes before
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let me into the the big part of the
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stadium
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it's it's better than waiting in traffic
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trust me i got the devil raised logo on
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here there's an orange one here
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this kind of even over here has the
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inaugural season
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98 written on it also tampa j has
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arrived
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i like this hat here yeah this color
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it does it does match your ensemble it
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does have like an old-timey vibe to it
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old school man yeah
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like 70s or 80s yeah i like this little
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squeeze popper right here has a soft
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foam
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shoulder it's so cool yeah and you like
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the the baseball will spit out dj
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kitty's mouth and shoots over 20 feet
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and it's almost time for first pitch i'm
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kind of noticing you got dj kitty and
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you got the cheerleaders and you got
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raymond up there dj kitty's dancing but
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raymond just kind of standing around
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watching the cheerleaders
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and we all got a picture with with dj
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kitty right before the game started
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the one and only dj kitty
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in the house
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chris aimless adventures he's joined the
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party
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three of us up here
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okay my first meal of the day i've been
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kind of doing some intermittent fasting
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so i've waited till now all day i've
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been thinking about how once i got to
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the stadium i was going to get one of
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these grilled chicken wraps that i got
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the other night this is going to be my
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meal of the day a grilled chicken wrap
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and i'm going to
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omit the spicy aioli
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so i'm gonna go ahead and order that and
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that's what i'm gonna have for my food
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there's no calorie count on this but i
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would imagine it's probably the best
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out of all of them
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almost a good play by walls out there
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angel's got a guy on
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like chris if you had to guess how many
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calories would you say this chicken that
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bass
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pretty healthy for a ballpark yeah it's
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good for ballpark food trying to eat
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better slowly but surely and i got my
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smart water down there too
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all right rays have scored
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harold to the plate had an rbi here
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oh ball
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that was
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mike trout slam
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oh that's a home run randy
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look at that dusting it off
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that was done
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man he crushed it over the right
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shohei at the trop
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okay i guess he didn't have like a
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stomach virus
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i did not think i was gonna get to see
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shohei bat tonight
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there are two outs
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man on first and second
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top of the sixth
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two strikes beats has been called from
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the bullpen against ohtani is beat's
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going to strike out of tonight
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oh yeah
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the scene from terminator 2. you're all
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right raymond
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i think you have too much good buddy we
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got a thumbs up so i think that's a good
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greg's
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i don't know what's raymond dude taking
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a nap
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rayman
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did you say terminator 2 the insane i
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think he's recreating the last name what
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a tearjerker
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did he fall asleep is he taking a nap
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i think he's on union right he's out
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cold
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i'm kind of worried
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poke them raven you good bro
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there's the thumbs up all right
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give the video a thumbs up it's official
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i think he needs a
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beverage need raven
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get a little energy now
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let's go raymond
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it's working let's go raymond
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a little high quality h2o there in the
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system
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i hope that was his bottle upside down
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it's putting it right back in the little
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thing there
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on to the seventh inning stretch
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very powerful always good to see the one
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and only dj kitty
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oh yeah dj kitty
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good to see you buddy
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you're my favorite mascot dj kitty
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always and forever
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one strike needed
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let's do this armstrong
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there we go
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that's it
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raise weight again race wins up
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and i ended up getting a toss-up from
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frankie mejia the catcher
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he threw one first and i didn't get it
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and then he's like here's another one
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toss it over the net and i got that and
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then inside the team store
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i ended up getting a couple of new caps
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i got this cap right here
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and
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let me just show the other one
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i got this one which i really like too
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so i got two caps and that's going to do
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it for today the trop is illuminated
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orange
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whenever the rays went they light up the
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roof
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starting to sprinkle a little bit a
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little raindrop just dropped on the
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front of my camera it's been a long day
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a lot of dinosaurs and a little bit of
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baseball
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i'll see the next video the vlog race
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win the raceway the vlog
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is over