I Stayed Inside The Short Circuit House (1986) - Then & Now Filming Locations In Astoria Oregon
Short Circuit House in Astoria OR
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welcome everyone
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Adam levoo here has a recording of us
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Thursday February 9 2023
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throwing a camera in your face at 7 00
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a.m 44 degrees outside after just waking
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up taking a quick shower
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goes a little easier
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they're having the camera up in your
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face at this hour without being
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caffeinated yet but that is going to
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change
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because everything gets a little better
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with the Johnny number five I think I
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think Johnny number five Johnny the
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nickname came in the second one number
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five
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is alive
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and since he was alive he was a living
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robot
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maybe caffeine would have helped him too
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even though he was completely full of
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energy already I have stayed overnight
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in the short circuit house which is
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right
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behind me in fact you could see the
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light
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on in my window where I slumbered and
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behind me
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I'm standing on the iconic porch for the
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1986 comedy classic dare I say
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short
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Circuit look at this bridge
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oh man what is my life right now there
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are worse ways to awake than on a screen
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used home in Astoria Oregon with an
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amazing view factually
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even if this was not used in a movie
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this is a great
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property
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look at this
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the bridge going across obviously a
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story is well known for a couple of
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other movies including The Goonies which
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I did yesterday
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but another film that I hold near and
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dear to my heart if not on par
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with the one I just mentioned
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is this one
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Short Circuit and I'm going to give you
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a little tour
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of where I stayed
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the house
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at least some of the house not all the
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house not the interior is all a little
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bit of the Interiors but definitely a
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lot of the exteriors well I consume
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people having hot caffeinated beverage
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with number five
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which I just made in the Keurig inside
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there
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it's early
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pardon my face at this hour join me
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shall you I'm excited yes in fact that
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is the very Bridge
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that he parachutes off of
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Chase pushing him down there was some
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construction work he launches off right
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off the side there
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and goes in the back of the food truck
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of Stephanie who's home
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I have set it standing on the porch off
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they came up the side of this road
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pulled into her parking spot
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number five is alive and one thing I
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will say however movie Magic I was
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expecting well not really I didn't
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really research too much
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Which Way East and West was but I was
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thinking possibly because in the film
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the sun rises right there
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she shows number five the Sun rising
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but in fact the sun is rising over there
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so they tricked us in a little Hollywood
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trickery and you'll notice there's one
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of these in the movie as well except
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this has been replaced in fact a lot of
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work has gone into fixing the place up
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but yet keeping it in a lot of ways how
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it was then
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towards the beginning of the movie
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Beasley the dog is right up here on the
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top of this ledge there was some
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firewood right here
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but this area here was used very very
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prominently very prominently
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and the homeowner's vehicle is over
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there as well
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now the windows have changed in fact
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quite a bit has changed but a lot looks
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the same including the banisters same
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design same everything
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same front yard
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where number five realize and completely
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understood what disassemble means no
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disassemble
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the last couple days
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Goonies in short circuit what the heck
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my little 80s heart is pretty dang happy
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right now
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in fact from this angle you can see
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number five in the window
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saying come on in so I'll go in there in
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a minute but I just want to show some of
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the exteriors first
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it's been repainted to resemble how it
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did in the movie when Stephanie owned it
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up on the side of this hill with a good
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overlook
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of the water
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really awesome
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really awesome I can just picture him
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jumping up and down here
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lands on the insect crushes it
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put it back together Stephanie
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reassemble
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no disassemble
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it all happened right here and it was a
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a couple different ways they made
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number five
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including the robot which I from what I
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heard what I was reading on was one of
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the most expensive things about the film
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was the technology of the robot itself
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and number five was five of a number
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of different prototype robots
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that Nova
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had created and there's even some behind
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the scenes photos that I'll show there's
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some photographs in the house I'm going
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to kind of show of Ali Sheedy
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was right here
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with number five and the cast was or the
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crew was down here puppeteering him
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not to ruin the magic but you know a
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little behind the scenes
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there's a lot of good stuff inside the
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house and you could stay here you can
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rent this out for the evening which I
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did well worth it discovered that that
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was a an ability to do that so I did
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I don't think the shed was here then
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however the top portion of this roof can
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seem multiple times
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you know the shingles wood shingled roof
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and around the back over here seen quite
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a bit
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now anyone that hasn't seen the movie is
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probably thinking what the heck are you
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showing
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but if it's etched in your head like it
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is me came out in 86 I would have been
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14 that would have been 12 years old I
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was born in 74.
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all of this is kind of sacred ground for
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a an 80s nerd
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like myself in fact
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number five Johnny Five fell off right
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crushed down
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into a little structure that has been
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removed
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but they have recreated the stairwell in
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the same spot I mean how dang awesome is
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that I can see why they chose this
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location whoever the location scout
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manager was chose really well
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with this view so iconic from the film
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where she's driving her food truck up
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the side
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right over here
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and her ex-boyfriend who wasn't a nice
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guy
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at all
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fact number five disassembled his sports
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car
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right over in that little area there
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not bad
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not bad number five
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I don't know why I'm talking to a coffee
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cup but yeah I just have to soak it in
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for a moment
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while the morning starts to rear its
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head
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this is a thing of beauty right here it
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really is
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I know there's a lot of 80s nerds out
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there and I definitely fall into that
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category
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probably because it was a pivotal time
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in my life you know being 11. 11 years
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old and 85 12 years old and 86
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you know any entertainment I would soak
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in
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really kind of gets inside your head and
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becomes
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kind of becomes a part of you especially
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when it's that era just kind of classic
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movies that you watched continue they've
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probably seen this movie a hundred times
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very bizarre to be standing here this is
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where she was first introduced what she
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thought he was an alien
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I thought he was from another planet
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was thankful that they had chose her
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she always knew they would choose her
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in reality it was a government robot
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but right in here is where her food
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truck was
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very spot
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and a lot of things have kind of changed
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the fact they built on
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a little on and on an awning but a
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little
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circular extenuation of the wall right
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there which I'll show some behind the
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scenes photos of that there's also a
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ramp right here
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and this stay or these stairs have been
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replaced also but the doors windows
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wrap around porch
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all in the same spot
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I see you there I'm gonna come in I'll
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be there in a second I'll be there in a
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minute
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I also want to point out the number in
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the movie is different
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than a number used in the film sometimes
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they do that
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they'll change the number so it doesn't
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keep up continuity wise
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right over where I just was this is
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looking at a screen
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grab from the film there's the Stephanie
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snack mobile Snack Shack as it's pulling
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up
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she had a
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makeshift animal shelter like a little
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little thing going on in the yard where
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she was taking in animals that needed
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care and you can even see Beasley up
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there on the top of the roof which is
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right behind me I'm just picturing a
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little when they're up here preparing to
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film Ali Sheedy standing there with the
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guy that played
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her boyfriend didn't become her
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ex-boyfriend because he was a mean guy
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Beasley was right up here
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right about like
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that
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got some birds out here tripping and
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crowing
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there's the angle
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looks like it's the same railing and
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everything
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if that's if that's so that's amazing or
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a really good
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good job recreating it
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I always like this kind of stuff with
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the little gutters and the railings and
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all that but notice the one right there
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at the dog's foot
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kind of coming down the side
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the incline of the miniature roof one
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similar or the same still there
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again there were stacks of firewood
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right here they have replaced these
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windows
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and I think there was even they even
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replaced the door around the back now
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there's a sliding door kind of funny now
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that I'm looking at this again there was
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just a crow crowing but there's a crow
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in the scene right over there
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and now that I'm looking at it I really
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do think that it is the same railing
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I think it's the same railing
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it's a new hotel down there too that
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wasn't there though okay now that I'm
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looking at this a little closer
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okay the now owner has put the address
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197 the fictional address above that
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beware of dog sign
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so the real address 3101 which showed
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you see
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robot peeking out through the window
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but 197 was the fictional address and
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above the beware of dog sign which was
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in the movie
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and right over here
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was a ramp that has now been removed
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and remember I was talking about the the
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extended out windows over there I'll
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show you what I mean
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as shown here so there's the beware dog
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sign here's the extended out windows and
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there's that ramp
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nice touch adding the
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adding the little things like that back
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there's a little scuffle right over here
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she has the bat she launches the bat
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it almost hits the lady that's right
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here
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and you can see a donkey and a a goat
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right here this fence has been changing
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there were some Hedges over there where
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that wooden fence is now
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quite a few animals in this yard all set
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decor
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it goes along with the plot of the film
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even though the stairs have been
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replaced
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you can see the sidewalk still looks the
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same down there in fact you can see
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where it comes out of the fence loops
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around there's a little grass area
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between this sidewalk that goes beside
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the side of the house
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and the stairs that's still there but
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it's been repaved over as shown here
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so original sidewalk
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coming down here coming around here this
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was grass and this is where the ramp
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went down and this is where that
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extended out fake facade window was the
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main boyfriend drives off she picks
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herself up off the ground goes back up
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the stairwell and right here at the top
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was a cute little raccoon that she feeds
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kind of just leans over
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feeds the raccoon
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right there
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with the camera
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kind of angled down like this
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wait a second
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is this is this the raccoon right here
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is that supposed to be the raccoon right
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hello
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camera pans this way
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follows both of them around the corner
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wood pile
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and shows Beasley up here on the roof
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and leaps down into Ally Sheedy
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Stephanie's arms
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right off the roof
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I love it
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after she meets number five she brings
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about on the porch look at that Sunset I
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was talking about and I'm matching up
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the railing and all the little
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indentations and numbers so you got like
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seven of these little small
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pieces here leading up to the big
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banister and that matches up in real
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times I think it might still be
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oh there's a deer over there right down
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there is a deer look at that
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oh another deer
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I was just standing in that exact spot
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to get an angle of the house from across
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the hill there
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there's a little little deer
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what a beautiful area
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I think that might be the
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the youth and then the mom
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or the parent was the one I just showed
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kind of leading them on
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but back to my point here if you count
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these
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you know from the end
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this is what I'm talking about there
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were seven of these one two three four
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five six and then the seventh one is the
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bigger banister so they had a crane here
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where they had like a elevated area
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where they had the camera on
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showing all this
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and they were admiring the
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the sunrise which does not happen movie
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trickery
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they got me they totally got me really
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gone the extra mile here with little
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details including the windmill
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because there was a windmill in the spot
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as well
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now what I'm starting to think is there
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is a sliding glass door back here but if
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you watch that scene when he goes over
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the edge he breaks through right here
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there was another ex another external
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facade that they built onto this that's
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the only thing I could think that you
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can see
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the original building behind that when
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Beasley is startling number five you can
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kind of see this it kind of protrudes
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out so maybe they built two extensions
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of fake facades on this notice the
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coloration of the original house there
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and then that extension and then this is
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where he busts through and you can see
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how it kind of
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has a little Jagged area there that was
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down that
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revolving staircase so really
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wow dump a garbage truck just dumped
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some stuff on it had a crashing sound
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I'm just picturing
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I'm just picturing the robot crashing
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off right there which would have been
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busted out right here so they would have
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had to have destroyed this and replace
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this after filming as he laid down there
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she Stephanie would have gone down this
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very very quickly again this has been
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replaced but it was the same similar
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type of circular staircase she looks
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down the camera faces up at her but that
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would have been her angle
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looking at him down there and this is
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also when she discovered that he was not
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an alien in fact he was a robot and this
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also kind of proves my theory you can
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see the extension of the fake facade
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they built on there
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as well which would have been down the
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staircase and you can even see the
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little wooden areas kind of holding the
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porch up that extension would have been
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off right about there where those other
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cars are parked in the next property
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over
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she then goes over and gets the phone
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and calls to report
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because she had found him it was
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underneath here
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underneath us underneath the porch
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itself
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this is a view from underneath the porch
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where all the action happened right up
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well not all of it but a lot of it
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there's a pin for the geese there's the
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roof line I was talking about in the
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distance you can see the corner of the
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porch
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when he's hopping along right here
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in the front yard again that shed I do
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not believe was in this in any of the
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scenes
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probably built there judging by the look
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of it probably was built there shortly
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after in the
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probably mid the late 80s also
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again that window there has been
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replaced the bottom window used to be
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kind of two windows side by side and now
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it's just a newer window I don't do the
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best impression of him but you get the
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idea
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I feel like this isn't even real that
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I'm standing here
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going to movie locations is such a weird
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vibe especially with something you've
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seen so many times he learns to drive
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really quick by reading the instruction
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manuals and drives her food truck up the
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side of the hill I wanted to see if this
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little garage is still up here but the
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garage is gone would have been right
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where that truck is and this is where
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the hedges were
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in fact you back out there's a lot of
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foliage with what I just showed from the
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film you see the
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the bridge over there in the distance
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that garage would have been right there
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this is the side of the house
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looking down into the yard
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she's chasing her own Snack Shack
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mobile food stamp look at this View
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drives right down this way and I see a
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fire hydrant I might be able to match up
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because I think the camera was facing
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back up the hill this way too I'm taking
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a little walk around the neighborhood
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yeah I think that's the same fire
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hydrant I think the little swervy road
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sign has been removed
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I think that's the fire hydrant over
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there obviously they were stepped way
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back it had a zoomed in lens to get that
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but I believe that's the fire hydrant
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down the hill the house is right up
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there around the corner as you can see
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part of it protruding over the hill line
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when I showed that garage a minute ago
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there's a little bit of
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structure from where that garage used to
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be I was looking around the back of the
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house
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what a view I mean even this wasn't a
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movie house
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what the heck I would live here
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freaking beautiful now I'm just gonna
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pretty much put it out there that the
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Interiors were not filmed in here I
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can't confirm 100 but when you watch the
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movie it's a totally different layout
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than what is inside unless they did a
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complete overhaul inside I'm gonna
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probably imagine that was on a sound
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stage
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in fact there's one scene where when
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they exit out the front and side doors
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it doesn't even match up with the
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continuity of walking out the front and
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side doors here
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pretty sure it's a sound stage but there
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are a couple times the front door is
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open and you can peek in and see some
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Interiors even though
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in my opinion the Interiors were not
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inside there
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standing in the spot when
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the ex-boyfriend realizes that his car
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has been moved which was right there
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number five has disassembled it
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standing right here when the camera pans
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over you can kind of see this little
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incline and the car was over there and
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the robot was in that little
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grassy area that has kind of grown over
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where he had the sports car completely
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disassembled of course this is looking
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from the porch zoomed in
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but more or less right here
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classic scene when he's flipping the
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coin acting like he's he was not happy
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they took his car apart though
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was not happy at all it comes running
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down the hill
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very angry another thing that's always
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noticeable when you get to a location
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too you realize just how steep things
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are they don't really I mean I knew it
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was a hill
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but this is really steep
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going down I'm not sure if it really
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translates a camera too well this is
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almost like straight up the side of this
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hill
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to get to this home
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I mean you get to get that view you got
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to go up but yeah
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didn't realize it was quite this steep I
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knew it was Steep and not this steep
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Frankie you broke the unwritten law you
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ratted on your friends
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you do that
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your enemies don't respect you
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what a beautiful day this is turning out
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to be look at this View
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you can hear that car that went by me
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the engine is really giving it some gas
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getting up that hill all right I'm gonna
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go inside now
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kind of show a little bit of the inside
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not all of it but show a little bit of
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it and show some of the
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stuff that's in here
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definitely has it themed out
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around short circuit which I found
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really a nice touch
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and even take away that this is
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definitely a nice place
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even without the film history
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oh I should also mention
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so you see this when Ali shitty opens
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this door
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you see it very quickly because they
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don't use the Interiors
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but they show part you could kind of see
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when the door is cracked let me close
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this
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if the doors crack like this
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you can kind of see the banister
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in the background it's only for a brief
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moment where she opens the door
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to like almost like greet him to give
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him a very
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what are you doing here creep
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type of grading
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but you can kind of see the stairwell
23:44
behind her a little bit if you slow it
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down and watch it closely I just love
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all the little touches
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that are on here
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and all through the home are photos just
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to kind of give you the vibe when you're
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staying here but you know what you're
23:58
looking at maybe you haven't even seen
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the film you would go oh there was a
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movie here
24:03
that was filmed on the porch as well as
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some viewing material there's a blue
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right here of short circuit which I
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watched last night sat on the couch you
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know I have I have it etched in my head
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from many times seeing it before but you
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kind of kind of watch it when you're
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staying here it's a win in Rome moment
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here's another nice touch here
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which is out on the porch itself she has
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the bat there the ex-boyfriend you can
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see the bridge and it's in the it's in a
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nice correlation to where
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the actual spot is looking out the
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window
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so you got promotional material from the
24:38
80s and you have the real spot at the
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house out the window this window was not
24:43
here when they filled it this was
24:44
actually completely enclosed wall this
24:47
window was however in fact have kept
24:50
this which looks the same this little
24:53
these little slats across but there was
24:55
another bar that went right down the
24:57
middle of the window here I really like
24:59
this piece of artwork too
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that was done
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it's called Stephanie's
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by this artist
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Jack Johnson I believe yeah Jack Johnson
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did that if I read that correctly it's
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really great
25:14
and some more of a promotional material
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and a frame here
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this is just up the road these gas pumps
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are not there anymore but I'll drive by
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there on the way out of town
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and show those in fact a lot of the
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movie was filmed elsewhere two or three
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hours away another spot that's like
25:29
three hours away so it was even filmed
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in Southern California a couple couple
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which kind of looked like the area that
25:36
maybe dukesa has with the later seasons
25:38
was filmed at there's some scenes there
25:40
and then also Vasquez Rocks which of
25:42
course the famous Star Trek Gorn episode
25:45
but a good percentage you know a few
25:47
things were filmed including the house a
25:49
lot happened at the house which is shown
25:51
there quite the Cavalcade of good stuff
25:54
this is great so there's the Interiors
25:56
here this is the dancing scene
25:59
and evidently the director that directed
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this they did a spoof on Saturday Night
26:04
Fever he also directed Saturday Night
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Fever so it was kind of a nice
26:08
correlation
26:09
but a lot of artifacts here
26:12
as well here in this case
26:14
including a catering list
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Garbage Pail Kids
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like a spoof on
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Johnny number five
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of course on the soundtrack who's Johnny
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classic
26:31
oh look at this here's a little behind
26:32
the scenes photo of the house
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back then
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even some playing cards some glasses oh
26:41
wow look at that
26:43
how did I not notice this till now it's
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a number five right there evidently
26:48
there was a Stephanie pale ale that came
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out also
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it's just so great
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I love the 80s love it
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oh here's a piece of the
27:06
this might be an original piece of the
27:07
banister
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in here that's what I'm guessing that is
27:17
no disa Simba
27:17
just kind of utilize this for a moment
27:19
just to show
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where number five is alive
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would have been
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that I might even go over here and get
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him in the frame of the
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Stephanie
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this is so awesome I know where you can
27:45
get this
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we bought this or made it
27:49
walking back inside now showing this
27:51
angle
27:52
again everything kind of correlated into
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the same
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same spot here as shown
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in fact you're getting a reflection
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of the outside and showing what it
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looked like when they filmed it in the
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mid 80s
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same angle and this is what I was
28:10
talking about here how they're like on a
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little crane up there beside the porch
28:15
right over there pretty awesome that
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there are two famous 80s
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filming houses in Astoria that are now
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owned by people who really love the
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films Goonies house has just been
28:27
rebought and also a lesser-known little
28:30
secret
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the short circuit home and by staying
28:41
also was given this a piece of
28:41
Stephanie's house for probably part of
28:43
the original
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original section of it maybe part of
28:47
what they extended out
28:49
nonetheless a nice little gift it was a
28:52
little over 200 a night to stay here
28:54
which I think is one heck of a good deal
28:57
you know considering a regular Hotel
28:58
would only probably be 50 70 less than
29:02
worth at the top of the hill well top of
29:05
the hill top of the staircase I should
29:06
say on the second floor
29:09
something wonderful has happened number
29:12
is alive life is not
29:15
a malfunction this is at the top of the
29:17
stair second floor
29:18
looking up
29:20
and here's a little more behind the
29:21
scenes photos Ali Sheedy there the
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director
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here's them in the front yard you can
29:27
see it's like being utilized like a
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puppet
29:34
so cool also these postcards are a nice
29:34
touch also hello from Stephanie's house
29:42
it's worries
29:42
diving in off the bridge with the
29:44
parachute on
29:50
and I still touches all through the home
29:50
even a washer and dryer in here and look
29:53
at this
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promotional photo here
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there's Gutenberg and Sheedy
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I don't think I've ever seen this one
30:01
before look at this this is all the
30:03
different numbers not just number five
30:04
there's a bunch of them
30:05
he was the only one that was alive
30:07
though the rest of them were just
30:08
regular robots there they are dancing
30:14
great
30:14
when it's called the short circuit house
30:16
that's a fitting name because this is
30:18
full on
30:20
short circuit a lot of behind the scenes
30:22
stuff
30:24
kind of all scattered around through
30:26
this is them on the front porch here
30:28
this is all at the house
30:32
that I stayed in
30:38
that is a great photo
30:38
just like complete people who own houses
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embrace
30:42
all this type of stuff
30:44
sometimes you go to screen use spots
30:47
and the owners really do not want you
30:50
there this is a whole different story
30:51
look at this guy wearing a class shirt
30:53
on the crew yeah so here's the extension
30:56
see they built onto this isn't that neat
30:57
this was all built on like a facade
31:01
under the real house
31:02
to give it a different vibe here's some
31:04
of the animals
31:06
it's like a boat I don't remember seeing
31:07
that but I guess it was
31:09
in the film in the side yard there
31:12
this is awesome all this behind all
31:14
these behind the scenes photos
31:23
of course Goonies also here and real
31:23
quick like while heading out this is why
31:24
I don't think the Interiors
31:26
were filmed in here the living room
31:28
much too small for that dancing sequence
31:30
sun is fully up now one last look oh
31:33
bird Bluebird just went by one last look
31:36
at the house
31:37
and the iconic porch
31:40
before heading out
31:41
let's show a couple spots on the way out
31:42
of town as well
31:44
driving back over towards the Tacoma
31:46
Seattle area today
31:51
I spent yesterday
31:51
and last night and into this morning
31:54
in Astoria Oregon
31:57
did two of my favorite 80s films Goonies
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yesterday
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and then today
32:06
checking out of the
32:06
short circuit house
32:09
I really like that we built this it's
32:10
awesome this whole area is just so great
32:15
stayed up in that room
32:18
and to be honest this would be a great
32:20
place to stay even without the movie
32:21
connection really would
32:24
just don't fall off the banister like
32:26
Johnny number five did right down there
32:44
one last walk through the yard
32:44
I would stay here again
32:45
you never know if I come back to Astoria
32:48
it's a possibility
32:49
but I highly recommend this place
32:52
you can rent it for the evening or for
32:53
even for a couple of days all you gotta
32:55
do is just see if it's available
33:00
pretty easy to figure out if you're
33:00
Savvy on the online
33:10
love it okay on the way out this is
33:10
interesting I just noticed this so the
33:12
original fence that was here I was
33:14
watching some of the the scenes again
33:16
this morning well last night I watched
33:18
the Blu-ray but then this morning I was
33:19
matching stuff up this might be part of
33:21
the original fence that he's placed us
33:24
and wrapped it around
33:29
because it was a chain link
33:29
but it also connected these wooden
33:31
pillars
33:32
well not wooden pillars but these wooden
33:36
pieces that connected to the fence
33:38
this is probably part of the original
33:39
screen use fence
33:41
I love that
33:46
all right see you later short circuit
33:48
serve me well
33:59
I wanted to show the spot where he comes
33:59
Parish shooting down off the bridge
34:01
right there there was some construction
34:07
fact
34:07
you can see this
34:09
this little sculpture over here was
34:11
saying one or two occasions during some
34:14
Chase scenes I think later like up the
34:23
this hotel was not here
34:23
and this building has been completely
34:25
repainted and redone
34:27
but yeah Kyle still looks the same used
34:29
to be a used car lot if you see those
34:31
concrete pylons robot pair shooting down
34:35
there's even an angle looking down at
34:37
the road now there's a rental car place
34:40
where the car lot used to be
34:42
it would have went right off here you
34:43
can see all this
34:46
is Johnny Five
34:47
it's kind of going around like this I'm
34:49
waving the camera around because that's
34:50
what they did kind of wave the camera
34:52
around like to and fro and then he
34:54
landed here
34:56
the back of the food truck Stephanie's
34:58
car went that way and turned right there
35:00
that corner looks as if the top portion
35:02
of this building has been redone but
35:04
turns the corner of the stop signs over
35:07
but they have completely redone this
35:09
building since the mid 80s when they
35:10
filmed it
35:12
turns that corner
35:13
goes up the hill right there and coming
35:16
back down the hill the Federal Credit
35:18
Union building still looks the same
35:20
as well except it's no longer used as a
35:22
bank anymore
35:29
on the side but you see the windows and
35:29
everything still match up
35:35
comes down this hill in a rush and you
35:35
see this statue here she was trying to
35:37
take the wheel from Johnny Five who
35:40
learned to drive and was driving the
35:41
vehicle
35:44
of course Steve Gutenberg and Fisher
35:45
Stevens their characters were followed
35:47
the Fisher Stevens character pretty
35:50
funny but I don't think my today's
35:51
standards
35:53
they probably they probably wouldn't
35:54
have that character today it would
35:55
probably would have Fisher Stevens play
35:57
in that role today
35:58
for the 80s
36:00
that kind of made sense
36:03
it's a different time
36:11
wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too
36:11
I was reading off the Dr Pepper
36:13
advertisement right over here
36:16
it was a it was kind of like an old
36:18
desolate building
36:21
with some gas pumps
36:26
right over in this area
36:27
as you can still see the poles there
36:33
I think really left even though there is
36:33
like a little structure there's some
36:35
rubble down here
36:36
possibly that's part of the rubble oh
36:39
you know what there's the dock part of
36:41
the dock
36:42
right down there there's also a dog
36:43
barking fun fact this was the motel
36:46
another movie filmed right here called
36:48
Kindergarten Cop which I'm not going to
36:49
be covering because I will return here
36:51
one day there's a lot of other stuff
36:53
around here so I don't want to really go
36:56
down that rabbit hole yet but I do want
36:57
to point out that yeah there's other
36:59
movies here that I like they'll have to
37:01
return to do
37:03
but there's part of the dock holy cow
37:05
look at this this is the spot
37:07
where he was right here
37:09
talking to the gas boss
37:17
this is cool there was like a a boat
37:17
that was up on shore
37:19
wedged on the shore right here you can
37:21
still see
37:24
it all matches up take a look at that
37:26
pretty cool
37:28
right here off the side of this road
37:31
it wasn't even in the best shape then
37:33
and now it's even in worse shape in fact
37:35
they've bulldozed all of it
37:37
this is the spot right across from the
37:39
motel from
37:40
the Arnold movie In fact when he's
37:42
looking at the gas pumps and talking to
37:44
them you can see the houses up there on
37:46
the side of the Hill if you zoom in on
37:47
them it's the same houses that are in
37:49
the distance so the gas pumps would have
37:50
been kind of like right over in this
37:52
area
37:54
and you also see the bridge off in the
37:56
distance over there not the same Bridge
37:58
you see from the house a different
37:59
bridge that goes over to Seaside in fact
38:01
when the security vehicle is driving
38:02
down the road looking for them you can
38:04
see this very angle as the vehicle
38:07
drives down the road right next to where
38:09
I'm standing as shown here
38:11
getting a view of it from back inside my
38:13
rental car and it was right after that
38:15
scene that that vehicle pushes them
38:17
across the bridge I feel like I need to
38:20
drive across the bridge I really do
38:26
that's an epic bridge I'm looking as
38:26
these pairs shooting down I think I
38:28
found
38:28
where the cross beams are I got to zoom
38:32
in on it but I can kind of see where
38:33
he's parachuting down off the bridge
38:35
would have been right where the main
38:36
portion of the top ends
38:44
so we would have launched off right
38:52
and that's more or less what I just
38:52
showed
38:53
I'm also noticing I found an angle that
38:55
you can see the short circuit house off
38:58
in the off in the distance over the
39:00
construction workers shoulder in one of
39:02
the frames for just a brief moment far
39:05
right corner see it right up here on the
39:09
hey what a coincidence there was a ramp
39:10
made of construction materials
39:13
that he could go off of
39:16
oh you gotta love it why would that be
39:17
why would that ramp be there going off
39:19
the side of the bridge now I'm obviously
39:21
not going to be able to stop to match up
39:23
anything
39:24
but it's basically right where the top
39:26
portion
39:27
of the bridge ends that's where the
39:30
construction area was
39:51
short circuit
40:21
no way
40:21
hahaha
40:23
it's on the other side but no a couple
40:26
hundred yards they're doing road work
40:29
where's Johnny Five when you need them
40:43
is there a ramp up here that a robot can
40:43
fly off made it across the bridge the
40:45
story off on the other side of the lake
40:47
not Lake River
40:49
Columbia River I believe it is
40:51
been calling a lot of things Lakes
40:53
lately there aren't Lakes
40:54
body of water
40:57
ain't gonna carry on head back over I'm
40:59
now in Washington State again this is
41:02
the state line right here
41:04
so you got Oregon Astoria over there
41:06
and now back over in Washington State
41:10
so long Astoria
41:12
I think there's an album called that the
41:14
atari's wrote an album called so long
41:15
historian I should listen to that on the
41:17
way back and that's gonna do it for
41:19
today
41:25
turning into a beautiful day I'll see
41:25
you in the next video the Vlog
41:27
is over