Forgotten Filming Locations In California Desert - The Hidden Disney Backlot / Vasquez Rocks & Gold
California Desert Locations
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today's adventure brings me down this
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desolate road
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in the southern california desert
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and i am heading towards
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the iconic peaks
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of vasquez rocks
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as the recording of this
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may 19 2022
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welcome everyone adam the woo here oh
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someone's behind me
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scott on tape
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zone the new sensation scott on scott on
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tap yeah yep
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have you ever been to basquez rocks
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before yeah i've been actually a few
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times and uh i filmed here a few times
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and as a teenager we just come out here
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all the time
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i'm gonna bring our dune buggies out
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texting you yes is this the gorn that
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was me is it the gorn it is is it the
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gorn
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okay this got really awkward you've
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never been here right i have never been
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to vasquez but you're familiar with a
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lot of the locations that where you do a
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lot of you do a lot of filming location
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stuff yeah so is this like kind of on
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your bucket list
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i do like the thin and now photos and
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this has always been on my bucket list
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but it's kind of far out here yeah yeah
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i said let's go to vasquez
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i'm ready and you were like i got a
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rental car let's go let's do it we
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loaded up all of us got a low rider
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random car low rider that's why we
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parked back there well it's not a low
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rider rental it just has small smaller
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low rider tires on it
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and this is not the only spot we're
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gonna go we're gonna go to a lot of
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spots out here in the desert
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but you gotta go get it look so many
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movies
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we're filmed out here
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alpha dog is filmed to the right alpha
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dog yeah they when they come up uh they
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think the the young boy at the end also
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hold up the climax i'm inviting you to
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join me
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scott on tap
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ape
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and of course star trek i did a whole
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gorn episode i found every little
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little nook and cranny and crevice every
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single scene from that years ago
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huge video that i did i put a lot of
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work into a lot of car commercials too a
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lot of car commercials out here
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bill and ted's bogus journey they
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climbed right up there
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also the flintstones movie
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was out here
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with rick moranis
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trying to think of what else
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oh blazing saddles
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harvey korman
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i'll show the spot where
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now go do that voodoo
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that you do
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so
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well
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right over here
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look i got a mask as rock here take it
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home over there yeah they built part of
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bedrock where this not a pink cadillac
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it's a pink rv
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kind of was but i believe corman was
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like on one of these rocks
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repeat after me i
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your name
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schmucks i haven't been out here in
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probably i don't know four or five years
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i've been i've been out here probably 20
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times when i lived in l.a i think some
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of army and dart i think grimlife was
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just out here doing
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did he just do army of darkness
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according to uim grimlife and yes we
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just did army of darkness
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you didn't do it no but i look like
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crime like you say you do some people
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say
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i've heard it before but i also get
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ernie a lot
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i don't get uh tom cruise brad pitt as
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much anymore that was in my youth last
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year but yeah you know what adam right
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here see what these cars are pulling in
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yes this is a true story you can cut it
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out you've got lots of footage you got
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you know anywhere i just started the
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video i don't have a lot of photos yet
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yeah i know but you'll probably cut it
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out anyway i was here this is the real
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barbie rv owned by this gentleman right
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here
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real barbie art for photo shoot that's
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the real barbie yeah that's the rv of
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real barbie rv real barbie rv yeah real
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bobby harvey
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was that a flintstone voice that was a
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hanna-barbera voice yeah exit fish loved
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that's close
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to something
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now i have hiked up the side of that
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same spot that building ted rolled went
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up it is very steep i'm not gonna do
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that again today that
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but i had to i had to get up there to
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get an angle from the previous time i
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was out here and man that right there is
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up here
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i'm just good looking at it from here
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zoomed in
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the sun is the sun is kind of an
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illusion it doesn't feel like it's super
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permeating
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but it is it's like on the neck on the
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face on the nose
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gotta be careful of the southern
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california
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on the nose on the face on the neck on
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the nose
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on the face on the neck on the nose i
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feel like something
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snap just look at this this red mess
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you look like a main lobster
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i am not the main lobster and from here
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we're only a few miles away
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from
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another film well a lot of filming
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locations
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but if we get
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go on the other side of the freeway over
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that way
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it is the convenience store and then
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down the hill which is impossible to get
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to
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is where the trailer park was from the
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last starfighter over that way
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and because working up a little bit of a
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thirst out here we should go get some
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some hydration
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over at the convenience store i am a
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little parched i am snakehole that's a
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snakehole yes and they'd say only if
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you're an experienced uh snake handler
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should you ever put your hand inside
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okay
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as a canadian of course i deal with a
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lot of snakes on the daily not the daily
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woo on the daily that's canadian talk
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let's see what we got here
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it's gonna be one of those squirrels
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from yesterday
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what was that little chuckle for i don't
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know i will play a little game
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name a movie that was not filmed here
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and make me think it was go indiana
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jones and the temple of doom they uh
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when they get on the roller coaster
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thing that's built inside the mountain
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they actually tripped it they built it
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around that one right over there and if
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you see the right here that's orange
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bush right there yeah that orange bush
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is the flame the singing bush from three
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amigos adam right behind you i don't
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know if you could tell but that's the
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that's the rock from trimmers oh okay
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right where they were on there because
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they don't want to touch the ground yeah
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the graboids were right here okay fair
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enough adam if you look at this rock
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right here this is in the uh
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enrique glacier's here i don't even know
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if it's possible to go 15 miles an hour
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through here it's very very bumpy
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yeah maybe you could go 15 but if any
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more than that
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and there's a lot of
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horses and cows in this area there's
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some jersey cows you got some palominos
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look at that got some long horns
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right here in the vasquez rocks area
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oh stagecoaches
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a lot of old relics this could have been
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used in a movie a lot of stuff's been
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filmed more cows at the top of the hill
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a lot of old relics in this car
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all right we just take this road for
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about three or four miles
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if you're wondering what that sound is i
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have the window rolled down but then
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also the ac in here is blasting because
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it is toasty
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out here in the desert it's a little
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warm
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should be coming up soon
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on the last star fighter convenience
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store and then down the hill which i've
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never got access to is where the trailer
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park was was also used in devil's
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rejects the sit head clown scene what's
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the matter
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scare the clown don't you like clowns
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aren't we effing funny
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and we have arrived i've been here
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several times but it has been a few
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years
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just to think that they built the
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starship
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right here
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in the middle of this parking lot and
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where he plays the video game is on the
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corner of this rio's groceries but they
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have built a wall that looks almost like
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a barn over there so you cannot peek in
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to where the last starfighter played the
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video game i'm gonna go in here and get
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some
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hydration and then right over here is
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where sid haig and the car got in the
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car
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this propane tank still looks the same
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and the last starfighter trailer park
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was down that hill
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all right we just talked to the
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gentleman that's working in there and he
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was saying that the trailer park is gone
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they were just props and the staircase
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from last starfighter is still down
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there but he said we were not allowed to
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walk down there because they reside down
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there but right over there that was the
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the scene
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where he's playing the video game right
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over there and everyone from the trailer
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park goes up the stairs is very very
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excited
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because he got the high score on the
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game here at rio's
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groceries i like this over here kind of
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like this little facade this bakery
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here this is interesting it's built on
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the
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the side of the rio's grocery
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as well
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and this stagecoach
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i really want to get down to where the
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trailer park was one day and the
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stairwell
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stairwell is still there
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and i've asked numerous times to go over
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to where the arcade game was and they
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always say no
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you know what
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i think i've been by here maybe five
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times in my life
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and one day
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one day it will happen
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it's been a while
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all right
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he parked the car we're walking
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underneath this thoroughfare
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past this railing
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to a pretty neat spot
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now usually if it was a if there's a lot
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more rain there would be water through
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here but it's
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very dry
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and not a lot of rain but i love this
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mural
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oh wow
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with the look look at this coyote or
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this fox here
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it's got a little meal and it's
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and his jowls
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i remember yesterday we saw all those
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squirrels on the pch
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there's one of them now made it all the
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way over here
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is the deer watching his deers hunt like
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that
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and i know you guys are probably
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wondering why the heck are you dragging
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us down here through this kind of this
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creepy alley where pennywise should be
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kind of camped out that's because right
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over here is the oak of the golden dream
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there it is which is where gold was
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first discovered and started the gold
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rush
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here in california
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right here the oak
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of the golden dream
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and there's a little more information on
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here so i'm not making this up
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you read it
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more shall i read are you ready
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francisco lopez made california's first
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authenticated gold discovery on march 9
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1842
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while gathering wild onions
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near an oak tree in placerita canyon
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found gold particles clinging to the
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roots of the bulbs
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the bulbs so he was taking a little
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snooze fest
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and there's some onion plants
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let's see where does it say where did it
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say he was taking a suspect i mean
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that's what i would do so i'm just
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thinking yeah you're making this guy
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sound so lazy
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well no oh catherine isn't just calling
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him a liaison
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i i always just i just assumed he was
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taking respect on mr lopez's name i just
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thought he was sleeping under the onion
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plants wild onions i would be you do
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what kind of dreams would you have if
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you s if you smelled onions while you
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were
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rich now this is up for a lot of
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discrepancy because i have heard
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arguments on both sides of the fence not
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this fence there's a fence there
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but some say
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because i believe oh you're right it
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says he was napping i'm sort of
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interrupt wait what he was sleeping no
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he really was he dreamt that he was
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surrounded by gold that was very rich
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yes
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i did i knew it i knew it vindication
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vindication for the woo
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mr lopez
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slept here
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yeah if i was asleep i would i would
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like
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curl up in this little cubby hole right
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there's probably some insects in there
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though
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a couple
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i don't know maybe some snakes some
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slithering serpents
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gold
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and there's gold
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inside there
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it's a very unique tree doing a little
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digging here on the google plaque yeah
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there was sycamore trees behind this
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street okay marks the spot of where the
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sycamore trees were behind us okay was
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discovered also over there somewhere
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okay the bubbles of the sycamore should
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we recreate the nap and go lay over
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there in the foliage really is no
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indication on the exact spot
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that he was getting 40 winks
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could have been over here what happened
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over here
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wreckage
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wow off the side of the hill look at
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that look you can see the tire tracks
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here yeah
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it looks like he was this is a job for
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columba he's drinking out of this silver
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flag was the 10 man here oh why how much
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this
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look at that motorcycle is it no no
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wow
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i'm rocket man yeah let's see
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rocky you actually face those your
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actual face is redder than that which is
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crazy
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you got some sun today or yesterday and
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today
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plenty i like when they built this place
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or they made this kind of a tourist
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attraction type thing
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that they put this bench here
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assuming that people were gonna hike out
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here sit on this bench
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and just look at the placard in the tree
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what do you think the last time someone
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sat on this bench don't sit on the bench
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i knew you were gonna do that i saw you
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getting ready
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what you guys don't know is this is the
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fourth bench from of course
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that never got seen
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and as you hear the traffic going by
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above
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these really fantastic murals here this
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is what you could be referred to as the
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most dangerous slip and slide
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have i ever seen a little bit tense
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go in there there's car parts yeah but
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look at this this is where water like a
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retention water comes off here supposed
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to spill into here this looks like a
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1982
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water park theme park leftover tubing
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raft
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off of here how many accidents have
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happened to this road and look there's
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even a sign up there
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saying you know what be careful oh yeah
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right up there but people aren't paying
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attention
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the counselors weren't paying any
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oh look at these two
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settlers over here
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it's nice oh the one the one has a
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piping hot caffeinated beverage
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right there what's out of the line he
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has a whole that's me i i when i write i
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don't call it coffee i call it a piping
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hot caffeinated beverage yeah you have a
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channel
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yes okay shake up the carpet there's a
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little bit we what are we gonna echo hey
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wait is somebody behind me hey mister
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mister wait
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yes do you guys hear that is someone
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else in here wait do you smell it
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hey mister
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there's someone else in here with us
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there's a there's someone saying hey
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mister it's echoey
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hey
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yes and there's also a cabin over here
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called the walker cabin the neat thing
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about this this is the oka the golden
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dream area but adjacent to here only
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about a mile up the way is another movie
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ranch disney's golden oak ranch historic
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cabin built to the 1920s by pioneer
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homestead frank e
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walker
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has been restored
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and just sitting here golden oak ranch a
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little tie into wdw because there is an
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exclusive housing development outside
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walt disney world also called golden oak
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ranch so think about it it all stemmed
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here at the oak of the golden dream
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that need to think about
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that's locked
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it's where it got its name
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at that tree i just showed
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the neat little sun flare that
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disappeared
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who would know
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that this was down here at the bottom of
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this canyon look at this there's a whole
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humongous back lot
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golden oak ranch
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i always thought golden oak ranch was
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just
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like just land where they just shot
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there saying maybe a couple like a
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church and stuff i have no idea that
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existed isn't that wild
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now i know there has been fires with a
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lot of backlots fires have destroyed a
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lot a lot of this is probably built in
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the last few decades
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but so much history
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has happened down here yeah i mean it's
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huge stretches all this isn't miles yeah
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this is just one segment this is the one
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good angle that you can get right off
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the road you think of apple dumpling
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gang parrot parent trap peach dragon all
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down in here
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and
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beverly hills 90210
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and the a-team
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macgyver
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things and one division recently
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filmed down in there too
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it's so weird it almost looks like
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something out of like a
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movie like a well
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obviously that's true but it look you
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don't would not expect this to be in
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this canyon like this
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really it's crazy to see that and it
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looks like at the top of the hill up
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there is another set
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way up top of the hill
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up there yeah yeah
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also somewhere on property is where the
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peabody barn was from the original back
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to the future
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is the barn still there i don't know
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i've never seen it with my own eyes but
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somewhere on this property
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and i love pee-wee's big adventure big
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top pee-wee
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but big top pee-wee
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was filmed down there
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as well did you get a look at the fences
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adam
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it's heavy duty
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like you're oh to try to go climb down
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there
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i'm not gonna do but you can see there's
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stuff way over there yeah
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and somebody's mowing those lawns
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look at that you never mow a another
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man's lawn i don't i learned that
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somebody's doing it i learned that from
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roger clemens and dumb and dumber i
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learned all donkeys live forever from
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you wait was roger clemens and dumb and
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dumber or was that this kingpin
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there's something way over there
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wondering if that's the peabody barn i
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don't know where exactly it would be a
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correlation
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but look there's like a movie
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like almost like a movie theater marquis
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right there in the middle right yeah
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yeah that's crazy it looks like
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over through those trees there's more
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yeah tucked away over there
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a lot of different facades
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look at this
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i would love to get down in there that
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is so cool
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i gotta do a little more research on
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everything that was filmed here
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don't believe they do chores i think you
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cannot pay for a tour to go down in
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but i'd love to get down in there okay i
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walked down a little farther a couple
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hundred yards down the road a bit
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a lot of wreckage here
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and fence line
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see if i can zoom in a little from this
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angle too
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you know i look at stuff like this like
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this tree in the middle of the plains
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here that had to have been used in
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plenty of productions this big tree
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right in the middle this big oak tree
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had to have been used multiple times
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something is out of place on this
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landscape
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something
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is out of place
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on this hilly mountainous landscape
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what could it be
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what does not fit in
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out here in this canyon
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and just to show
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you're not allowed to enter on this
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product this property without written
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permission but i will show that right
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here past this fence
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was another back to feature filming
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location that you can see when marty
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drives a delorean away from the peabody
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barn
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out this way
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and he's driving back into town he just
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got bought into 1955 and was very
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confused into a panic
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and over here he drives off down this
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way
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and i also want to show that if biff was
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here be very discouraged that he had
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a car
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towed all the way to someone's house and
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all they had for him
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was a light beer
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and since we're in the area gonna go by
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the ending scene
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from halloween three right up here on
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the right hand side
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gotta like slow down this gas station
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it's a retro looking gas station looks
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like a used car lot now
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right here near the old river off the
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old road and it pretty much looks the
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same it's been repainted and cleaned up
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quite a bit but the very ending of
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halloween three though the one without
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michael myers that a lot of people back
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when it came out didn't like but since
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then has created quite a stir
22:43
in the community and people really seem
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to like it now embrace it a little more
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than ever i happen to really like it a
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lot
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it's wacky fun movie
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halloween three top
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top atkins
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play of the roll i think this was
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featured earlier but also at the the
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climactic ending where he goes in and
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watches the tv gas pumps have been
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removed but the gas pumps
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are right down here
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and they have
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they have kind of stuccoed over the door
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that he went in and the attendant was on
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duty goes past the gas pumps goes in the
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door
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they go ahead
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the use go in and get the the candy
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because it is halloween
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and then he just goes into that hole oh
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you're gonna
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turn it off
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stop it stop it stop it it's kind of a
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deep cut filming location from the
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halloween franchise
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you've covered a lot of halloween stuff
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i have i've covered it for halloween
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because i've never actually seen
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halloween three wait a second i know
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you just did the same i know because we
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washed it in the car i know you've never
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seen halloween three no what but when it
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came on you know what i said turn it off
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stop it
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so that gas station needs to be a
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petting zoo behind it
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look at that thank you sir
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someone just brought up some pictures of
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what the gas station used to look like
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this is the gas station right there
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right there that's it mm-hmm this is the
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house
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right there
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ah interesting
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all right i think there's a good places
24:19
in it to do the outro this very
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beautiful windy area look at the wind
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blowing in the tree there just the trees
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johnny
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just the trees
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there's something in the trees
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all right that's it
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thanks it is so windy out you're welcome
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i don't know thanks mister
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hey man i hear that echo thanks miss
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that this stuff also you hit a thousand
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congrats look how excited i am and red
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is the sun right now
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broken wings by mr mister i love that
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song
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and scott on tap scott on that just pull
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me i'll see you then i'll see you the
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next video
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the vlog
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it's over go home
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it off stop it stop it stop it