TDW 1846 - Honoring Huell Howser at Pinks
Huell Howser Pinks Episode
https://youtu.be/iR5XKrlWJTo
Tony Danza Interview at Pinks
https://youtu.be/tuHEIGyftP4
Transcript
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the subject matter today takes place
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near the corner of Melrose and LaBrea
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Avenue a very delectable roadside
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establishment that serves hot dogs a Los
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Angeles tradition known as pinks welcome
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everyone Adam the woo here according to
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the sign they are celebrating 77 years
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of existence I know this place because
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of a man that I admire by the name of je
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Hower who did a couple of different
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filming episodes right here one in 1981
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and one 18 years ago which became the
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most popular documenting this place now
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I have wanted to eat here for quite some
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time today makes it extra special
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however because hu's very own cameraman
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for many many years will be in
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attendance to sign his new book so I
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figured heck it today's the day to give
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it a shot it's my second channel daily
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vlog channel it's the daily woo
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established in
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1939 family run business their last name
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actually was or still is pink and you
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can see the Vintage signs up here they
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do serve burgers even though most people
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most people prefer the hot dogs which is
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what I'm going to be delving into not a
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whole heck of a lot has changed over the
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decades this screenshot I took from an
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interview that Tony Danza did here right
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in front of the counter you can tell the
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only major difference is the awning is a
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little bit longer and some of the
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signage is just slightly different but
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other than that everything looks
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identical Tony had his car parked right
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here where this water and power truck is
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the apartment complex in the background
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still looks the same but a lot of the
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storefronts have changed considerably
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it's a very casual interview if you want
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to check it out it's on YouTube and
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basically where the kid with the
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sunglasses staring at me is is where
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hule and Tony were having their little
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impromptu moment and then later when he
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returned to do a full piece on the place
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the sign said celebrating 59 years they
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are now celebrating 70 man time just
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time just moves on and the trash cans
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are no longer pink they they are red
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should are they going to change the name
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of this place to to Red now the real
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question is are we going to share one of
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the double chili cheese dogs named after
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hu Hower or are we going to split one I
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don't think heel would allow us to share
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one I think we have to go full heel on
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this he could eat he could eat one all
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by himself we should follow in the the
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footsteps yeah he challenged all the
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guys in the back to an eating contest
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that's right he did that's right may we
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should do that today we should challenge
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everyone are you buying just standing in
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this spot I feel as if I feel as if the
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legend himself could just hand me that
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that hot dog right there just hand me
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that dog H I'm hungry when they Chang
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the name of the double chili cheese dog
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to the hu dog they put this this placard
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up of California etched in gold as an
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honor to his show the price however the
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price you'll notice was not $7.50 back
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there it's it's pretty much pretty much
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doubled in 18 years there have been many
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different incarnations of the actual
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structure sitting here that's what it
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looked like in
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1939
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1941 it progressed just a little bit and
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in
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1946 it's kind of sort of the building
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we are seeing day you can ring that Bell
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for a kiss so if you want a kiss you can
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ring that Bell you going to reach over
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and ring the bell you're going to ring
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the bell ring the bell come on ring it
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ring after the meal we'll see how good
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the meal is no one wants no no one wants
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to kiss someone with onion and chili
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breath though just ring it now should
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ring it now this is peer pressure come
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on don't chicken out ring it bring It
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come on bring It
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the lucky one who's the lucky one who's
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the lucky one that's going to kiss you
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nobody's claiming it man look they're
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all pretending like they didn't hear it
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yeah fail I do like food this is going
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to be this is going to be spectacular
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the thing that amazes me the most is
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there's not a whole lot of room behind
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the area where they are prepping the
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food and hu was back there the cameraman
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was back there there were a few other
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people just wandering around he just
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pretty much went everywhere and anywhere
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documenting this place and now that I
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see it in person after watching that
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episode so many times there's not really
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a whole heck of a lot of room down there
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one incredible thing about this place as
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well is the basically the wall of fame
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of all the different
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celebrities who have stopped off here
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and eaten and it's not just what's up
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here but take a look at that entire
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plethora of photos there are literally
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hundreds of
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autographs All Along The Wall some
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people I've heard of some
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I am not really oh there's Areno hall
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right up there and Ryan seest and look
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at this guy right there we were just
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talking about you I don't know how many
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I can eat but I've only ordered just one
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and this is what we're dealing with
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there's not just one hot dog on there
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there are two two
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links crammed on there with a
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humongous chunk of cheese and chili and
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just a little hint a little
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hint of an onion what' you get oh my
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gosh you got don't film me don't fil
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this is a love affair that's not meant
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for everyone you have the chili dog and
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what is this thing the guadalahara dog
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you're going to be able to eat all of
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that I'm going to try well at least you
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got a water so I mean that kind of
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that's the healthy part that's the
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vegetable and what's up with these fries
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this one's for you
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hu huge inspiration you were the
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original
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person that went around roadside
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attractions and videoed them way before
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YouTube you were a game changer this
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goes out to
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you in his
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words that's amazing now when hu was
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here did how much did the business pick
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up after that episode aired he put us on
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the map put you on the map he did
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because hu Hower is so well loved and
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anything that Huer loves people love
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and they wmed up loving pinks even more
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than they had all those years beforehand
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and then we created the hu Hower dog in
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honor of hu and now it's our most famous
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hot dog on the menu everybody comes in
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and has a h dog absolutely my favorite
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part of the episode is when he asked you
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to hold his hot dogs well we're going to
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we're going to could you hold that for
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me and then he just disappears he just
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he just disappears and never comes back
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because he gets so preoccupied talking
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with everyone did he ever eat did he
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ever e actually eat them oh absolutely
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whether he was here with Louis or he was
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here you know for a show he came here
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like regularly I mean I would say he was
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here once every two weeks easily would
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wait in line and get his hu that's
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amazing and he always waited in line you
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know he never wanted to go to the front
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of line or anything no he says I just
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want to be in line like everybody else
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have you ever been tempted to toow down
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on your phone case it's it's tempted
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that is very cute or your purse your
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purse I don't which I like both got the
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purse they're both amazing got the
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glasses you know and you have a book
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that you're just releasing all about
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your escapades with hu how many years
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did you work with him we I work with hu
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for uh 12 years we work together and we
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travel up and down the state and then of
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course we did the visiting series uh
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which is the episode that was here the
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visiting series now the camera you use
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is down at Chapman University I've been
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down there to see that one was there
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more than one camera or is that just the
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One camera you used for many years one
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camera just the one I've seen it with my
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own eyes he came pinks you know with Lou
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and we said we were so grateful and and
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so forth so we said you know we got to
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find out a way to bring hu back and we
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said we just got to create a hot dog in
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his name but he didn't know about it so
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you know we we put a curtain over that
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California gold
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sign pink curtain and then we revealed
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it and he went oh my God he was stunned
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and the first thing he said is I got to
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call my mother back in Tennessee because
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this is bigger to me than getting a
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straw on the Walk of pain never forget
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us feel great to hear that he was
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fabulous it seems as if nearly everyone
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has eaten here even G Brooks a Henry
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Winkler look at that The Fawns himself
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and kermy and Miss Piggy when you exit
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out the back that's where the dining
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area is I was sitting right there
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consuming my food in this decorative
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mural love dogs think pinks and I always
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every time I see these plants in the
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wild I always think that they look like
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hot dogs so it's interesting that they
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have added them to the mural and they
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have adorned these hot dogs in mustard
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check it out they wrote letters on there
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A lot's changed since your days now you
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can pretty much just film can pretty
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much just film on a phone like I do oh
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yeah I know it's just a different world
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and I edit on my phone as well as crazy
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as that is my God everything's done I
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upload right to the internet on this
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like incredible what you can do now I
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wish I would have had some of the toys
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they have today to do some of the stuff
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like the GoPro and uh these flying uh
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the drones drones and things I I could
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have done so much more so much more and
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the thing I enjoyed doing was making a
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shoot look like a two camera shoot or a
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three camera shoot and uh that was a lot
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of fun so editing does experience a
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Pioneer that helps basically guide us
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and what vloggers do today I mean I
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don't know if you realize that like it's
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a whole thing you guys were kind of the
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orig the original Roadside Attraction
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vloggers in a way yeah 20 or 30 years
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before I never thought about that just
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to me just just me the technical person
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there's entire groups of people that
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live their life filming videos in
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winnebagos going across the country
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because they want to do what hu and you
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were doing oh yeah amazing it's awesome
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and it's uh it's not complicated it's
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just uh just going out and doing it you
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have to want to do it
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right okay let's get to the light make
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got to do it so you have to instruct me
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just like you instructed you will stand
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here stand here I'm being I'm being
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filmed well recorded video recorded on
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my phone from the man himself this is
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amazing I got my book signed
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personalized and you're behind the
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camera so did he just he moved all over
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the place so was it hard to keep up with
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him I'm doing aou he kind of went you
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kind of went into the Shadows like
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this see you're you're good at that see
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I can't I can't hide from you it's
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almost impossible to
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hide I'm Louis 360 and Louis 36 I don't
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even I can't even comprehend what's
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going on right now thank you you totally
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you totally you totally made my day this
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is I'm on Louis video I'm on Lou Vlog
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the daily it's the it's the daily Lou
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thank you man all right I appreciate it
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cool a you made our day man thank you
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you're amazing thank you so much thank
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you
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so we just get the screenshot
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there awesome oh cool thank you so much
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see I just video record it and then I
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just still the shot and use that as a
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photo so you get the best of both worlds
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you get photo and video your own Lou
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pretty much you it's all done man it's
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so much simpler than when you had to
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when you had to do it life is a lot
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easier now oh yeah so much easier to
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with the toys you have today it's just
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incredible imagine imagine the
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possibilities I ended up picking up his
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new book Lou take a look at this my time
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with huel Hower California's gold and on
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the front insert he customized it and
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signed it to me to the camera to Adam
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and I got the family that was on site
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that were in that episode as well to
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also sign the book I am really looking
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forward to learning all about his
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working relationship with oh man look at
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that some good photos in here as well
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wow yeah this is going to be good this
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is going to be this is going to be good
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all in all a great day had some
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delectable treats well a hot dog can be
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a treat had some delectable hot dogs
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look at the line that is how popular
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this place is it's pretty fantastic if
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you ever in the area stop by for the
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history but also stop by for the amazing
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food
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I'll see you guys tomorrow
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Vlog over