Abandoned Places On Highway 192 Kissimmee - Old Fun N Wheels / Empty Movie Theatre & Pirates Island
Hwy 192 Update May 2024
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this Wednesday May 22nd
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2024 I am walking along the side of
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Pirates Island Adventure Golf a place
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that has been closed fallen into
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disrepair and seen way better
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days for a few years now it's been
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sitting
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empty and the reason I am showing this
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is cuz a little bit of a segue because
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later I'm going to show another
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miniature golf course that I used to
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work out in the late '90s early 2000s
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for a few years part-time I was working
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at Kmart full-time and at night I was
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working at River Adventure Golf which is
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pretty close to Medieval Times down that
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direction still on Highway 192 and I
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have received word of saw an article
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online that the property has been sold
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and there is going to be new development
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going in that spot very soon so I just
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wanted to go by there see what's
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happening and show how it is next now
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that way later I can look back in the
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future and see the development but I'm
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kind of starting off here and I'm also
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going to hit up a couple other places
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here on Highway 1 it's a Highway 192 day
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I'm inviting you to join
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me always good to have you here that's
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warm shall you kind of curious if
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anything will ever be done with this
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property either if I've learned anything
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or either if I've learned anything when
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it comes to places that are sitting
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empty kind of showcase a couple
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yesterday when I was driving driving
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back from downtown Orlando to
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Celebration you know when it comes to
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the former Holy Land
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Experience things like that it'll sit
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empty for a very long time and then
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before you know it you're like this is
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this is never going to change then all
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of a sudden it will change it'll be torn
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down and something new will pop up
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within a matter of months also like this
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Billy Bo legs headstone here rip Billy
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Bo
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legs another place I went by yesterday
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just real quick
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like was the mystery F old mystery fun
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house kind of by
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Universal Orlando and that place torn
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down sitting empty for a long time torn
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down and now just springing up with
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apartments that are almost
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finished cannonballs up
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there I've noticed since the last time I
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was here this door has been kicked in
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this is in really bad shape he gets
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worse every time I come pop by here
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couple times a year I'll get out and
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peruse around and it gets worse and
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worse every
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time I always love that pirate ship over
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there
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I got a soft spot from Min golf places
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because I worked at one for quite a
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while this would be a very difficult
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hole look at the little grooves
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there a garbage truck pulling out over
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too I don't think that many golf around
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these parts are as popular as it was in
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the '90s
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I know you go to Gatlinburg well Pigeon
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Forge especially mini golf
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Haven here in Central Florida they're
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really not as thriving as they once
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were there's a few of them that are
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still open there still are some that are
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doing well but not as many as there used
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to
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be this is just one of the couple that
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are closed down within a one or two mile
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radius the lagoons all
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empty just full Le
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overneath This Grass lies oneeyed
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Bill if he'd seen what's coming he'd be
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here still I like that that's good
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here oh Howell
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Davis amongst
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the Gul of all Pirates whatever that
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means also I just passed a big pile of
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dung that had a lot of flies on it
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startled me
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lot of
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flies all right not going to go up any
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further into here but showed this before
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I wanted to give an update this has been
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an
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update and I can only guess or assume
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that because there are these ribbons
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around the trees but they might be
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slated for a little demo in the upcoming
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timee frame then again that looks a
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little weather warant so maybe that
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ribbon might have been around that tree
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for a while probably not the sign is
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falling off be assured it a't RC me
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thinks it's that Village sewer tank lift
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station it's because a little bit of a
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stinch right
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here at one point this used to be a
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barbecue place if memory serves
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correctly could have been a
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Sunny's I'm leaning towards it being a
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Sunny's but it was a BBQ place of some
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sort it's been closed for many many
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years right here along the side of
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Highway 192 I've headed over towards the
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Oola Mall formerly the Oola mall it's
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called something else now but we used to
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call it the small cuz it was a small
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Mall known as the
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Oola Mall
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there this is the back of the little
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Mall there and this is used for
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something else now but that used to be a
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movie theater part of the I believe it's
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called the Oola Twin Cinemas it was a
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Twin Cinemas and this is Oola County and
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it was behind the mola Square mall but
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now that building is being utilized but
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on the complete other side off
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property was the other part of the
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cinemas and I am curious to
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see what's going on over here they
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started fixing it up a couple years ago
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and then they just stopped working on it
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I was just sitting over there the
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secondary part away from the mall of the
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cinemas I went to move see movies way
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back in the day I both properties me you
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can just see how massive this parking
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lot is it was very busy back in the day
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got the lights
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up o I think the door's been busted in
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over here oh
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yeah oh yeah it's an apartment comp Lex
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right there not that one but the one
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next to it so behind this building on
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that
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corner when I worked at Office Max which
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is about a half a block from here I used
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to live in that apartment complex over
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there can't really see it from here but
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it's like right over there
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though where the movie poster used to be
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right
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there yeah they started working on it
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and it's been sitting here for a couple
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years not being used just nothing's
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being with
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it
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nothing just walking about a block
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away front side of the
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mall was a place called fun and wheels
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this is in the early to late '90s I
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think they tore it down in the late '90s
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or at least it closed in the late '90s
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but my family first moved here in
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1 and then through the mid90s came here
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a number of times just a random couch
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right there and you can see where the
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access road around the back was you can
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see over here where the dumpsters
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were and this was basically a like a
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little fun park that had go-karts fun
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and
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wheels the wheels referring to the
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go-karts it was all right in this kind
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of a diamond shape almost how it kind of
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goes like that and it went all the way
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up to Highway 192 this is before they
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built those buildings over there but
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this patch of land still here
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empty good old funing
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Wheels this is interesting I believe
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these are the original
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lights from the go-kart
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place how they stretch there they didn't
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didn't tear the lights down
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light there light there a lot of places
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when they bulldoze what was here and
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it's been gone for decades the whole
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thing's been torn down but the lights
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all still
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exist you see that a lot of places they
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always leave the lights well nine times
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out of 10 they leave also kind of
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strange that this old Kmart still
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sitting here
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empty massive parking lot
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huge building been sitting here for well
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over a
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decade that was the garden center right
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there big chunk of real estate not being
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used for anything there's a Big Lots
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down here that was a Publix for a little
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while shortlived publs
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keep driving by these places every so
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often thinking that one day they're
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going to be reopened or something's
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going to be in its place or it's going
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to be torn down and something's going to
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progress progress is going to happen and
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a lot of times it never does until it
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does and
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then it happens quick this is a gym now
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I believe I think it might be a plan of
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fitness used to be an Office Max worked
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here 5 years worked at retail and I've
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shown the front of the building before I
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I've ever shown around the back in a
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good chunk of the time I worked
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overnights I worked day shift I was also
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the receiving manager for a year or two
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and I was right behind those doors so
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the trucks would pull up here back in
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but then also there would be some
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deliveries here I'd open that door can
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look at that little
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peole to see who was delivering whatever
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and I would sit back there do my
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paperwork do the inventory sending
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things back damages things like
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that counting
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receiving
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Etc I had a little CD
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player I'm going call it a boom box but
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a little tiny CD player Radio thing this
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is early
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2000s I worked first shift when I was
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receiving manager and I would sit back
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and listen to Howard Stern Show back in
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those days back in the Arty days which
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were I haven't listened to that show in
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a long time but back in the Arty days
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was classic Radio before he went to
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Sirus and I would also listen to went
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through a big Beatles phase where I'd
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listen to The Beatles Albums on CD on
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that little thing back there while I was
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at work my desk was like over there
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against that wall on the other side of
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wall 40 hours a week for years right
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behind that wall
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memories yep it's a Planet Fitness
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now be kind of interesting to go get a
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day membership going to say it'd be
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interesting to get a day membership in
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there just go in and work out in the
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Planet Fitness where I used to work for
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5 years stocking shelves doing receiving
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got a lot of memories in that
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building we drove down here in park now
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walking over to former River of in
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go like something's popping up over
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Landing also not a real
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tree cell phone
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Tower cell phone tower there was
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originally two properties there was the
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Viking
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Motel stood right here remember when
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that was open I believe when I was
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employed by river Venture go which was
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over
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there the owners of the Viking Motel
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also owned River Adventure Golf that's
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what manager would tell
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me it's fenced off now at least parts of
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it still pretty accessible in a lot of
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spots in fact last time I was out here
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there's
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some people living on
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site out in the
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woods this is the parking lot of the
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Viking Motel and from what I was reading
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this tree has falling right there on
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that fence but from what I was
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reading the new owners that are going to
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be building something here are going to
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take over both spots so that's exciting
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so you got a new place popping up over
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there and down the road it's not going
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to be in the immediate future but it
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will be in the future this is going to
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be developed from what I was reading you
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can't always trust the internet but it
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seemed pretty legit I remember this well
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I bring my car drive down this little
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turn in now there's a shopping cart down
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there little bit of an incline going
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down also Place Another shopping
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cart right there to obscure anyone from
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driving back in there that's where I
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take my car go park
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the evening to work night
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shift River V golf remember what I was
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saying a moment ago about
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lights even though they tore out the
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golf course lights are still here
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you can also see quite a walking path
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has been worn here from people walking
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back into
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there I have no plans to go back in
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there been back in there
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before we'll be doing that
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today here's where the mailbox used to
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be in the past when I've stopped by here
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the mailbox was still there the mailbox
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is now gone
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there see that fake tree cell phone
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tower from here too
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kind of excited to see that this is
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going to be progressing and being
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developed into some future
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attractions here on Highway 192 this has
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been in disrepair and in bad shape for a
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long
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time all right one of the the two big
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wizard gift shops here on
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192 Magic Castle gift shop and one thing
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that's really interesting about this
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they're doing a little work out front
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they're taking care of some some stuff
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here along getting rid of some of the
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foliage and whatnot but I drove past
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this and the reason I wanted to show
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this even though I've shown this in the
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in the past is that they have changed
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the sign the sign here used to be really
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really tall in fact it used to stretch
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way up there and I don't know if there's
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like an ordinance here on 192 that you
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can't have a sign that tall but the sign
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is about half the size as it once was I
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don't know why looks like they put some
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new lights up there too but yeah that
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sign I mean I've I've been by this thing
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a thousand times so I noticed it
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immediately when I drove by I said why
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the heck is the sign cut down in
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half what happened
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wizard city ordinance or just did it
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fall over I don't
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know I pop in here while I'm here
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all right it ended up getting a couple
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shirts while I was in there that I
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hadn't seen
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before the thank you bag there got a
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Mickey shirt and a stitch
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shirt thank you wizard thank you for the
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inexpensive purchases you can always
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find some good deals of these gift shops
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and sometimes you can find stuff that's
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not in the
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Parks I don't think both of the shirts
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that I got I haven't seen in the Parks
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maybe they removed the sign because of
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the copters going by ah no probably not
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it wasn't that tall yeah that side has
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definitely been
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shorten all right now parked over here
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at downtown
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celebration feel like just walking
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around downtown for a little bit so
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that's what I'm going to do and it is
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definitely a little bit of a warm went
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out today summer is
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approaching very fast and no other
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stores has gone in the Cornerstone Deli
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which closed a few months ago we going
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to pop in there and get a get a water or
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something
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refreshing but no store there kind of
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miss having that spot down
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here Fountain
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is work sometimes it's on sometimes it's
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not on today it's
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on yeah I think I'll go inside the
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celebration hotel as the lighthouse up
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there see if they got a water in here oh
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they were very nice they I went to the
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front desk and they go here's a water I
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go I'm not staying here and they go it's
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fine it's complimentary I said no I'll
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give you a dollar so I gave gave him a
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doll gave him a dollar I think they
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thought I was staying
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there what day I'm going to stay
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there oh another helicopter going
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over if that's one of the tour
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helicopters know they realize they flew
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celebration nonetheless that's going to
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do it for today I appreciate you
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watching thanks for tuning in spending
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some time with me I I really really
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enjoy the fact that a lot of people tag
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along in my everyday life so sometimes
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it's exciting sometimes it's not
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exciting and nonetheless I really
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appreciate you being here that's going
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to do it for today I'll see you in the
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next video the Vlog is over oh yeah I
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forgot to show the two T-shirts I got at
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the wizard gift shop throw this throwing
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this out here at the end after the outra
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bonus
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footage I like this Mickey
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one I don't think I've ever seen that
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he's like pointing at himself saying hey
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look at me and of course Stitch here
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with the ice cream cone Good Vibes