A Sad Update at Demolition of Iconic Florida Film Landmark - Ernest Saves Christmas House is GONE
Goodbye To The Ernest Saves Christmas House
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welcome everyone adam's a woo here has a
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recording of this it is about 7 00 p.m
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on thursday
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march 31st 31st 2022 now the way i
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usually will film videos as i film them
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a little bit earlier in the day and then
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i will edit them at night upload them
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the next morning kind of keeping that
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routine i've been taking the last few
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days off to do some personal things run
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some errands plan my next road trip
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which most likely will be starting
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around april
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10th 11th 12th
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ish and i planned on taking a full week
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off
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went up to lake eola
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ran an errand ended up picking up some
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items that i needed to get from a little
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market that they had
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at lake eola
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and while i'm in the area i realized i
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should probably go by
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one of my favorite movie spots near
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downtown orlando and just see what the
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update is
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and i got uh
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as i was driving over here
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i got a very
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i got something in my heart that told me
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that what i wanted to see
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was probably going to be gone now
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a little shout out to my friend micah
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from world of micah him and i
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well let's just say we're not probably
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the two largest
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as far as biggest
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jim varney lovers out there that played
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earnest the lovable ernest p world not
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only in the commercial
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but also in earnest goes to camp ernest
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scared stupid earnest
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saves christmas also this will be a
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one-take unedited vlog this is important
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enough and relevant enough
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that i just need to talk about it
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him and i have done i did the filming
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locations of ernest
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saves christmas the 1988 what i would
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consider a classic
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not a lot of movies have been filmed in
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central florida and one of those that
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era
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of the late 80s let's say mid 80s to
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late 80s there was a lot
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going on around here as far as problem
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child two
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daryl
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ernest saves christmas the touchstone
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disney branched off and did touchstone
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pictures and ernest saves christmas took
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plea place
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here in thornton park a lot a lot of
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around downtown orlando but a lot of it
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was in thornton park and ernest's house
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for me anyway a very important
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historical
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piece of property
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by the way i'm inviting you to join me
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for some bad news if you're into filming
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locations like i am not everyone's into
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filming locations i am
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the earnest saves christmas house
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has been torn down
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it's gone
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i have been by this place probably 30
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times in my lifetime
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finding it finding it originally
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was very difficult there was no
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information online about it i found all
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the other earnest
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safe christmas spots and this one was a
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mystery and the only reason i found it
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out was after hours and hours and hours
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of looking on street view and i
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discovered this building down at the end
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and once i
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figured that out then i realized wow
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that is in thornton park with a series
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of stores right down there a beautiful
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fountain
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right down there john cherry who
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directed everything ernest
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ever did he created him and jim varney
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created the earnest character
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john cherry
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still living
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jim barney passed away i believe in 2000
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i have visited where he is laid to rest
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i have visited the earnest goes to camp
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camp
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ernest says christmas for me is probably
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the
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the best of the movies as far as well
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produced they have the most money behind
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it and i'm going off of just memory but
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i think it made the most money
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out of all of them
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it's on tv every christmas i watch it
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every year
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harmony star
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stole santa's bag right here
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in this driveway
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the truck and the boat here was right
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there
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ernest
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pulled his truck in and out of this
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parking lot backed it up and went down
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the street
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now micah my friend world amica and i'm
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mentioning his name because we share
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that we're kindred spirits when it goes
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to terms of jim varney he was by here
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about a month and a half ago and he did
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kind of a heartfelt episode talking that
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he
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thought that
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it was the last days of the earnest
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house
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so i went by about a week later to do an
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update
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just showed it briefly in another video
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i was doing not to really focus on it
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but just to show
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that it was still here i got a hold of
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him he was pretty joyous and pretty
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happy that the house was still remained
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and i thought look they've got some
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stuff set up then maybe they're going to
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restore it maybe it's going to end up on
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maybe not the national registry but
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maybe the city orlando registry
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of historical movie places why would
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they tear this house down granted it was
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dilapidated it was falling apart it
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needed a lot of work the windows were
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boarded up
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but this is it right now
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this is what it looks like now
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and i was pretty happy after he did his
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videos and i came by a week later i had
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high hopes
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but something in my heart today when i
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was in this area told me
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go by there
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when i went by there i passed around
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thornton park fountain right down there
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and as i walk as i drove by
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i saw an opening
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in the neighborhood and opening a plot
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of land
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i mean it's just a thing it's like
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i mean honestly in the grand scheme of
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things it doesn't matter if it's here or
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not
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except for those who have seen something
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on film
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and it's a little extra special
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because there's not this is not la this
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is not southern california this is not
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new york
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there are only a select handful of
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notable
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screen used properties here in orlando
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and as i said because i was an earnest
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lover
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yeah this is just wow
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right there hello
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yeah i would imagine that the people in
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the neighborhood probably are content
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that this is gone because it was granted
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let's just face it it was a little bit
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of an eyesore
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compared to the other homes on this
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block
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it needed some work
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maybe someone did not want to put the
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money into it
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but it's gone though
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they filmed the interiors in there the
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porch was right over there
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you can go on
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check out world of micah's channel
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check out my channel the original adam
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the woo channel just search earnest safe
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christmas filming locations
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it has been covered in great detail by
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by him and i and probably even some
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others who have kind of
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found the love and found the locations
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in downtown orlando
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but right over here
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was you know where all of ernest little
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props in his yard they had the mailbox
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all adorned right here
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it was here
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it was like a camera kind of a crane
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angle that came down
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showed the house
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interiors on the porch
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gosh
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i mean they leveled this thing so
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quickly
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within the last week i was by here
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and now it's been erased
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from existence
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to quote another of my favorites back
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this i mean think about like the mcfly
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being bulldozed from back to the future
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it's kind of having the same effect
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i'm not going to insert any you know
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screen captures but i'm not going to
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show what it looked like
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just simply you find all that stuff
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online just search the earnest house
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from earnest eggs christmas but
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that's it it's pretty much just a little
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nothing major no real rhyme or reason
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to why i'm uploading a video today other
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than this
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which i i think it's a sad moment
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for
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central florida movie history
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we don't have much here in central
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florida as i said this is not la this is
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not los angeles
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this is not new york city
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heck this isn't even north carolina
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where they're filming a lot of stuff now
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there's not a whole lot that took place
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most of it in orlando was filmed in the
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80s
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which makes it good because i know
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i love the 80s
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what will go here now
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i honestly have no idea
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you have to wonder what's in that
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dumpster over there
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that's probably part parts of the house
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in that dumpster
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i'm not gonna go trouncing around
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on the property but
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i'll probably come by here you know down
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the road
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way down the road i won't have any
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reason to stop by really anymore
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i would could s i would slowly watch
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this decay
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started off decent
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in fact someone was living here for a
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while when i did my video someone was
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living here for a while when micah came
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by and he did his video
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i can remember his excitement when he
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you know
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got a hold of me shortly after that was
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telling me the story that he talked to
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the owner that was here
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no just memories
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memories that are now gone
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i hope whoever owned the house is okay
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and they had a reason for
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you know if they're still around if they
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have a reason on why they got rid of it
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why they just tried to try to destroy it
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and
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yeah it's just unusual to me
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by the way i'm filming this on my camera
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my iphone i usually use my canon g7x
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i'm not going to do any editing i will
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upload this in real time
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probably upload it right after
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it is filmed
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as stated taking a little bit of a break
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this will probably get me back into the
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routine of filming which i didn't really
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want to do i wanted to take a little
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time for myself to
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decompress i had not missed a day since
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new year's day
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so almost
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i don't know how many days that would
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have been but i've taken the last three
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days off
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but i had not missed today since
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new year's day well since before new
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year's day almost since christmas
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i felt this was
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vitally important to the community
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of those who like filming locations
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thanks for watching i'll see you in the
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next video
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the vlog
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it's over