Old Town Kissimmee Saturday Night Classic Car Cruise Is STILL Going Strong - Fun Spot Walk Thru 2022
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today's adventure begins here at the
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celebration florida water tower of the
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shopping center
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as the recording of this it is a
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saturday
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july 23rd 2022
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about 6 p.m 6 15 p.m
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in an hour and
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15 minutes no two hours
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and 15 minutes at 8 30 p.m the saturday
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night cruise
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at old town will be happening
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old town kissimmee
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is only a few blocks that way probably
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half a mile a quarter of a mile
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less than a mile welcome everyone added
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me the
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woo here i use the term 830 loosely
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because cars line up throughout the
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course of the day starting at 1 p.m
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and i was
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kind of researching and looking back on
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previous videos this will be the first
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time
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in 2022
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where i will document
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the old town saturday night cruise oh
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how time has flown i've covered it
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before
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and i'm going to cover it again but this
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is the first time in 2022
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i'm inviting you
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to join me also
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fun fact behind this water tower which i
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am convinced has no real water in and i
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think it's just a facade
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a fake water tower is a publix grocery
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store
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which publix was my first job i ever had
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back in 1991 i started at the one in
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saint cloud florida worked at that one
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and the buena ventura lakes one in bvl
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they called it
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that was a long time ago also
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but i have found one of my favorite
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coffees tim horton
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the plural tim hortons
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well not plural but the ass has added to
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it
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inside this publix and probably others
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the k-cups
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i'm excited to have those at my
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homestead which is down that way
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the celebration florida homestead and
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the mail carriers are working rather
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late this evening it is
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past six o'clock
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also just to give some directional
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arrows here
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i4
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is that way
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westbound 192 eastbound is where i am
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headed
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right over there
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just thought you'd like to know now you
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can see there is this pipe which would
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allude to water was going up and down
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but i remember a while back a year ago
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or so they had doing some construction
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and this was located over here on the
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ground
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which kind of gave away
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the fact that there was nothing up there
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unless they've replaced it and filled it
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with water now speaking of the cruise
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once i get over there i'm just going to
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kind of peruse around the streets of old
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town kissimmee possibly
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maybe go on the ferris wheel i don't
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know maybe i'm not definitely not go on
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the vomitron however vomitron will not
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be happening but i'm gonna head over now
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and i'm really glad to have found these
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got to give a little thank you to my
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friend splur and ryan who he found some
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near his publix up in his neck of the
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woods so i tried this one and they had
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them now the forecast is predicting rain
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but i brought my umbrella that'll make
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it interesting i always park over here
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about half a block away okay i have
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procured a spot for ten dollars and it
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appears as if
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someone is about to go on the
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take flight
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oh man i did that once
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20 years ago i had a job interview over
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there and they said in order to work
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here you have to ride this all the time
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so i had to test it out
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and then afterwards i said i don't think
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i want to work here and also getting a
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good view of the wooden roller coaster
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that has an inversion has like a goes
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upside down at one point
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right when you can reach to kind of
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reach the bottom of the drop
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look at
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that okay this parking lot is ten
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dollars to park in but it's much easier
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than trying to find free parking around
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because usually there's usually no
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spaces and the lot i always will usually
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i'll park over here at this red lobster
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which they probably get a lot of
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business from the parking area so it's
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ten dollars right here
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fresh fish live lobster and
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parking
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plenty of parking near old town yeah you
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see right here special event area foot
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traffic only
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also another section over here that says
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tourist
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info store number one has vip parking
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for the same price on the same side as
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old towns this is actually a little
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closer tucked away back in here
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and there's people on site to take your
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money and
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direct you to the spots back in 2001
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2002 give or take this used to be like a
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bar of some sort i mentioned this before
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but it's been a while but i was in a
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band
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and we played here
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booked a show and it really wasn't a
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place that normally had shows he brought
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our own pa quite a few people showed up
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to see us and we had a riveting circle
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pit going on right inside here almost on
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the side where this popcorn stand is now
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yeah there was no stage just set up on
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the floor played on the floor in fact
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the drummer here
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was hanging right down in here the
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drummer was set up right in there i was
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over there with my base cabinet guitar
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player over here singer and it was a
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nice little nice little little slam
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dancing happening right in there
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you know i kind of wish back then i
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would have documented a lot of that
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stuff for posterity there might be a
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photo or two floating around out there
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but i kind of searched i can't really
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find too much definitely no video as far
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as i know but you know i kind of wish i
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had the wherewithal and the
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thought process to document more of that
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back then but from this angle it doesn't
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look like there's going to be any storms
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but you never know with central florida
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also old town kissimmee is located at
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marker 9
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on highway 192. there's a shony's right
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here and here's something interesting i
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had never seen before but this right
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here is frowned upon if you want to trim
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any of this down don't do it because
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landscaping and pruning is prohibited
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and the way it works is the cruise cars
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pull in this
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way so here comes a cruise car now
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pulling in and other guests go on the
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other side to attempt to try to find
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parking estate and i park
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on the other side of the road
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but right there at the base of this
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little
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threshold
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into
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old town this car cruise is completely
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free does not cost a dime with the
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exception of the parking which is free
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also but yeah i just opted for that 10
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choice
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but it's been going on for over 30 years
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three decades
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this has been taking place three decades
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and counting and i am happy to announce
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there is a coffee shop out here old town
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coffee shop right here in the center of
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old town i got myself a vanilla latte
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they didn't have any lids though so i
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got a vanilla latte without a lid now
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for five dollars i could take a photo in
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this car for 25 i could ride in this car
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probably in the passenger seat that's a
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neat idea maybe one day i'll do that and
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i'm always curious what exactly this is
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over here for do not sit on the metal
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bumper it's just the front it's the
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front portion of a ford car right here
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yeah this ride right here also is
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something i probably would never do this
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would probably make me a little bit on
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the nauseous side and this is a fun spot
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which is located right next door
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to old town so old town is just right
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there in fact you can see the side fun
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spot is right next door and on the other
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side of the vortex is where you can find
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where the cars start to be kind of
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stationed up i stated at 8 30 is when
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the cars start to move down the main
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street of old town kissimmee but
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beforehand from one o'clock until right
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about 8 15 or 8 o'clock when they start
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going into the position of driving down
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the main the main road they're all over
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here and it kind of appears as if
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there's a fewer cars than there has been
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when i was here last year these ducks
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over here are not worried about
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rain at all however in fact they really
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enjoy
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the water
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check out over here are some carnival
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style rides and attractions that look
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like they may either been taken down or
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possibly going to be placed up here
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now many years ago right over in this
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section used to be a big sculpture of a
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waving man to look very similar to walt
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disney it was look at this a leaf blower
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over here what are the odds a leaf
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blower in the middle of a go-kart track
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but that little sculpture that was a
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waving guy that had the mustache like
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waltz is gone it's been gone for
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probably five years now i kind of wonder
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if there was any issues that it
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resembled too closely to look like walt
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that it was gotten rid of it was right
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here
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at fun spot oh this is also one of the
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ray old race rock vehicles race rock was
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on international drive it was a race
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themed dinner show this is one of the
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last remnants of race rock that still
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remains there's two of these on property
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look up top there
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you can see where it says
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race rock right up there
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tree race rock
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oh look at this burger company called
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the new york burger company has the new
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york skyline right there even with lady
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liberty
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as well
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i'm not going to get a burger tonight
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but yeah
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but they probably got some tasty burgers
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has a little bit of a fair vibe as well
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going on at the funnel cakes
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and whatnot out here
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hot and fresh
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yeah definitely such a really cool vibe
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out here just been going on for so long
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it's just it's just a constant here in
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kissimmee and there's the other race
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rock truck over there a little golf cart
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here as well but there's the others the
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cars are now starting to fill in
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as the as the evening progresses it's
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getting closer
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it's getting closer up to time for the
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cruise itself and evidently they have
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added a little train that goes down the
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main street
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down kind of cruising down a little
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miniature train if you so choose you pay
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a few dollars you get all the miniature
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train i don't know if i'll fit in there
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but yeah there's a miniature train now
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that here
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and that is the infamous infamous
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infamous like three amigos said that's
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more than famous i will never well i'll
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say never but odds are very very slim to
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none that i will ever go on the vomitron
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that is the real name it's not a
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nickname i made up the real official
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name of that ride is the vomit tron
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it looks pretty beautiful under the
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sun's out there though all right it
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appears as if they are now starting to
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move out of their little stations area
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and line up the cruise is about to begin
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i am seeing a few i have seen before but
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i'm also seeing a few i have not seen
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but now this one
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i've seen before this thing's always got
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quite
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quite the rumble
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in the back of it and they're all kind
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of lining up you can see the officer
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over there has the street blocked off
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everyone's kind of backed up they're in
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for a little bit of a wait over there
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wait till all these cars go by before
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they're able to move across i'm going to
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find my spot i always like to get a spot
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kind of right here in the middle around
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that area yeah that one's got the
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checkered flag they've got the checkered
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flag out waving well it's not waving
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they are making an announcement
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what they're saying over the
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announcement is do not ask them to do
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burnouts do not ask them for photographs
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they're not allowed to do any kind of
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burnouts or anything like that so
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they're making all these kind of
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announcements just to make sure so
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basically what happens is all the cars
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kind of leave a little station over here
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they go around they run parallel to the
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i'm calling it main street but then
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they're going to go up one side of the
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road here which is going to go that
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direction and then they're going to come
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back around this way so they're going to
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basically go up
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and then all the way down and then back
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this direction and in the past they've
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turned down this way but i've also seen
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it other times they've gone all the way
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down there so they got a pretty full
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loop oh wait this bug is
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taking matters into its own hands and
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just going the opposite way maybe it's
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i don't know why that bug's going that
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way everybody else is going going that
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direction might have maybe has to leave
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possibly
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all right it has
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it has begun i always like the ones that
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have like quite a bit of a rumble look
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at a little there's a dog in the back of
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that one right there yeah i always like
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the ones that have quite a bit of a
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rumble this is the kind of one i said i
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said this is probably my favorite in
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pastimes is chevy right here usa one
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this thing has probably the biggest roar
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of any of the ones i've seen in the past
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and i'm happy that this vehicle is back
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again and i really like this corvair i
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like the color of the corvair as well
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how's it going
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nice to see you man
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waving and saying hello i really like
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that corvair i can see myself behind the
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wheel of that thing right there for sure
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of course i was like this old style 2
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here with the opening kind of exposed
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engine so you can see down in it there's
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the flag
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i always like to roar and this is not an
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electric car at all this runs off of
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fuel these are fuel driven
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true classics so everything's kind of
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going the way of non-fuel oh here's
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another bug as well i am still waiting
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for the day when i'm going to actually
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be able to be in this cruise and this
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bug has its own little like luggage rack
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on the top right here this is super
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super vintage of course all these cars
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are very very retro speaking of like a
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little ruffle underneath the engine here
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this one's got a really good little cur
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there this camaro right here
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yeah almost like an earthquake rolling
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through
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it's almost like a little bit of a of an
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earthquake
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love it
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oh there we go this is nice too look at
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this thing i don't know if i'd ever
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drive something like i don't know if i
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look behind a them
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good behind the wheel all that you can
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tell that some people they just kind of
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want to do a burnout oh yeah we got even
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got a delorean in here check it out
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there's a delorean one thing at some
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someday not not only driving in the
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cruise but i would like to have a ford
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my grandpa used to have an old ford
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truck and i like to get an old ford
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truck one of these i could see myself in
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my older years you know
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the years down the road having like an
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old ford truck now this is a very teeny
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tiny mobile so like maybe like four feet
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tall everybody's honking the horns here
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everybody having a good time out here at
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old town yeah that's a nice little low
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angle as these kind of go by everybody
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giving the waves
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here's a gto
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very i like the color on that like aqua
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blue that luggage rack is full of
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luggage and a surfboard right there
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there you go a little beach cruising
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bus style
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oh it's got a coffee sticker on this
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coffee is my best friend
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all right they're just continuing on
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they're just moving right along it's
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like a parade of vehicles a parade of
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classic car alerts
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oh look at that that's nice
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it's got a little curve to it also i
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don't know if that's the correct
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terminology this is a 1972 license plate
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state so okay now they've looped around
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it does seem to be a little bit shorter
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than some of the cruises in the past
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giving it a little gas there giving it a
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oh
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an event 30 years
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30 years strong and continuing
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and it looks as if it's kind of wrapping
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up all the cars that want to be on
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display again are going to park back
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over here where they were before and
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others are leaving it just depends on
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those that want to stick around those
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who want to listen or i should say those
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that want to stick around and those that
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want to leave you know some people some
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people pull back in the parking lot and
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other ones believe i think this guy's
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trying to get through here over here at
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fun spot there is an air air brush
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thing you can get an airbrush in here
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even though there's really a thing
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anymore if you see the fares and stuff
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but very rarely do you see an airbrush
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anymore
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i could i would wear something that was
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airbrushed i'm not gonna get anything
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tonight but
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yeah look there's a unicorn up there the
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unicorn airbrushed couple of unicorns up
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there actually a lot of different
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unicorns on this airbrush place there's
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darth vader over there
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and a volleyball yes fun spot definitely
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a fair type of vibe
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you have the basketball hoops here you
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can win a prize
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you got the
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shoot a star you got the water
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area over here water fun
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yeah this is just a it's like a fair
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atmosphere and if you get a dart on a
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star you get a little ice cream cone
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plushy an alien or a bear or maybe even
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a jersey up there or even in some drones
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i would love to film on the mind blower
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but they do not allow filming on these
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coasters here at fun spot they're
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dropping in
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they're dropping in
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wow
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yeah that would be so much fun to go on
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a
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mine blower these are huge claw machines
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you can wear you could win a smart tv in
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there three dollars to play the big one
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crane also an xbox there's even like a
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tv look at that big jug of ones down
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there five dollar or not five dollar but
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a five gallon jug of ones
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i mean what would be the odds that you
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would even get that like how do you even
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get the tv over there i guess me oh you
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get your choice if you get that box
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you get the choice
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three dollars of play
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yeah so you guys if you get that you get
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the choice of it this would probably be
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more of my speed to go to win a tweety
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bird
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or a unicorn right there
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for two dollars
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drop
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so two dollars you could win the tweety
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bird for three dollars she could win a
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five gallon water jug full of ones for a
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smart team
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i just heard this thing go off they are
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celebrating a huge summer here
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there's a frog up there there's a frog
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up right up there look at that frog this
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place is really really really
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busy tonight there's a lot of people
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over here also this coaster called
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galaxy spin is a lot of a lot like
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triceratops been an animal kingdom and
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kind of like certain like the mouse
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coaster you see at the fair also out
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here you can see one of the vehicles
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that was used in the patrick swayze
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classic like a center of classic
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road house with the oversized tires this
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is a screen used prop from roadhouse
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yeah these things right here are very
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very disorient they spin around so much
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they really throw your equilibrium off
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these coasters and this is like a good
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way to kind of makeshift the little
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parking area here the other is like just
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how you divide up the parking spot
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something about the sound of a lift hill
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on a coaster
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it's a very unique sound it's almost
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soothing
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of course the drop
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completely the opposite of soothing
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but there is a ride vehicle going up the
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ascension you can hear it
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and i'm going to predict some screams
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will be taking place very very short way
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up there listen
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yes getting some screams there oh they
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must have been the photo op so they're
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taking a little flash of the photo
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and it's coming around quick
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there it goes
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going through there
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it looks like fun and again keep in mind
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all this parking here is free but it
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really is hardly any available parking
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so the 10 one's over there it's kind of
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worth it if you just don't want to keep
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driving around in circles because
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there's not really a lot of
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parking that does not have a charge for
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i don't think 10 is too bad you see
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everyone just kind of keeps looping
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around trying to find parking out here
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and with no luck
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and while heading home
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stopping by this gift shop a place that
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i've showed many times during the day
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to be honest though i don't know if i've
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ever shown
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the wizard in the evening hours all
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illuminated under the shroud of
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nightfall so i'm gonna just show it at
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night it's it's kind of in the same
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vicinity a couple blocks away from where
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i just was i also pop in while i'm here
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might as well pop in see what they got i
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should probably go buy the big orange
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too i don't know if i've ever shown that
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at night this is probably one of the
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most unique gift shops on highway 192.
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in fact there's two wizards there's
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another one a few miles away this is
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closer proximity to celebration than the
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other one
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but they're both pretty close this is
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the more
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kind of non-evil looking wizard the
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kind of has a some interesting eyes that
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stare into your soul this one
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you know a little bit a little bit odd
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but not as odd as the other one okay i
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found something i wanted it was sixteen
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dollars
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and i haven't seen this in wizarding
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world
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so i got a little hogwarts
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shirt next time at universal hollywood i
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can wear it or other times
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now they had shirts for the three other
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houses that
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i wasn't looking for so they had
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hufflepuff they had gryffindor they had
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slytherin didn't have ravenclaw
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so that's why i went with the shirt i
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have but i kind of like the shirt i've
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never never really seen it before
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probably not official who knows with
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some of these places but
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yeah pretty neat
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so i got a little something yeah take a
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look the world's largest orange
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at night
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that's going to do it for today i'll see
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you in the next video
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still very orange even in darkness the
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vlog
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is over