Picking Up My Mom At Airport & Seeing Billy Idol - Santa Monica Pier / Universal City Hotel Check In
SoCal Sept 2023
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welcome everyone
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Adam the woo here as the recording of
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this it is Wednesday September 17th 70th
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Century September 20th
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September 70th
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September 20th 2000.
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23. I need some coffee I am on my way to
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LAX first thing before heading over to
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Los Angeles International Airport where
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I will be picking up my mom who was
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arriving from Florida she is flying
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coast to coast and will be here and
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elsewhere with me for at least the next
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two weeks maybe a little maybe a day or
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two more than two weeks it's gonna be a
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fun time
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checking out the hotel here in Buena
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Park California
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and later on tonight checking uh into a
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hotel well around 4 pm it's 11 A.M now
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at 4 P.M gonna be checking into the
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hotel at Universal City for a few days
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before her and I get on the plane and go
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elsewhere but that's a few days off I'm
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inviting you as I do every day
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to join me
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see where the day leads shall you
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traffic at 11 15 as I'm pulling out of
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the parking lot here
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doesn't look too bad it's going to be
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about 36 37 minutes depending on the
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route I take over to Los Angeles
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International after that see if she's up
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for it head over to the beach
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maybe hit the pier at Santa Monica
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it's been a while since I picked someone
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up here as opposed to just flying out if
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I fly in and out of here pretty often
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even though I prefer John Wayne
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sometimes I'll fly in and out of LAX
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it's been a while since I just was here
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and wasn't getting on or off a plane
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he's picking someone up picking my mama
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up
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starts to get a little backed up right
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here
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what they call the Horseshoe well
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taxi driver called out once and ever
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since then I just keep using utilize the
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horseshoe around LAX gets backed up
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gridlock's a bottlenecks right through
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I like that name the Horseshoe because
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it looks like a horse it's a hustle and
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bustle
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I think I'm gonna Park
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take a look at that looks like they
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built a I don't remember that ramp being
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there
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control tower the new control tower the
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old one the classic one from all those
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old TV shows movies even current movies
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but retro looking control tower still
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right there things pretty dang awesome
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I thought they left it there I'm not
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sure what they use it for now
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restaurant
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like it might be a restaurant I just I
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honestly don't know
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but I've seen that thing in so many
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Productions over the years
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classic yellow I'm off the top floor of
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a parking structure right now parking
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situation was
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a little intense but I found this one
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spot in fact most of them
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weren't even available
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most of the different Lots I had to park
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a couple Gates away from where I picked
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my mom at she's over here flying in
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Delta I believe
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I'm in P6 level four
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4A well actually I'm over in Four B's
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where I parked the rental car P6 level
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four gotta remember that
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it is a little difficult the fact that
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they have a lot of the parking
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structures closed off I guess maybe it's
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just so busy a lot of them aren't
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available so I have to walk the other
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side this way
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I could just
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pull into the arrivals area
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and then you know wait after she gets
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her luggage and do that but nine times
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out of ten when I pick up someone from
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the airport I like to park and then just
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be in there
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I don't know just like a weird weird
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chick that I have
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I don't always do it but a lot of times
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I'll try to Park
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go in wait stretch my legs
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greet them
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but sometimes just so it doesn't work
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out but today it's going to work out I
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found a spot
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it was like walking through some kind of
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I don't know what I'm walking through
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it's like a fist off area here
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there's a
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soda machine over there
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unloading the stanchions if you wanted a
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valet
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75 bones
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but yeah this is what I came across each
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one reservation is only this length so a
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random car can't pull up in here
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the only one I found was the one way
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over there all right I made it
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300 World way
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I'm not sure why I said it that way
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there's definitely a mess through here
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yeah Mom and I were crossing the road
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Billy Idol was behind us he's got some
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people with his luggage and stuff yeah
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Billy Idol over there he was like
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waiting at the light
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I like how I told you that Billy Idol
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was behind us you had no idea who it was
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it's the best
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I'm sure he was probably on American
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Idol as a judge one time or a guest host
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he wasn't
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okay
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well you met Billy Idol
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what you saw he was standing at the
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Crossroad with us
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he's as old as what
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a man
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so most of them have these reservations
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I wonder if Billy Idol had a reservation
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he seemed to be walking the long way to
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his car too
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I bet Billy Idol could probably get a
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reservation for parking at LAX but yeah
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almost to our structure
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I told you to meet somebody famous
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she didn't know who they were
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listeners
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he looks pitiful
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he does all right now I'm gonna head
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over to Santa Monica Pier from here
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about five or six miles
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brought me down here
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2015. I think was the first time you
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visited
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probably so
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I think your first time you visited was
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2015 when I lived in at the orange
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circle
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this area over here this aquarium I have
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never walked up these stairs to go up to
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the pier usually I go the other way all
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right so we're at the end of the Santa
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Monica Pier Another Day in Paradise
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right over here the municipal pier in
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fact there's like a little
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uh dedicated the official Los Angeles
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County historical landmark May
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1973 and looking back we're going to go
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on the ferris wheel I've always heard
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that the ferris wheel over there is
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solar power it's the solar powered
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Ferris was also a roller coaster but
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we're getting to the ferris wheel
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and there were some seals out here
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swimming around I wasn't able to get
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them on camera and they swam way off but
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there were a few seals out here in the
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water
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people at their fishing poles out here
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doing a little fishing
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at each over there they got Malibu off
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in the distance that's like the pretty
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good angle of uh
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the mountains Malibu off in the distance
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all right we're above the ocean now
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looking over into the second as well as
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the roller coaster that's over there is
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also supposed to be solar power oh you
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can even see the solar panels going
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around the coaster going around which
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way right over your shoulder there we're
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right behind you there's a ride down
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there with the sharks right there kind
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of reminds me of Sharknado which is also
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filmed right here on the past that neat
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little like butterfly wind visor right
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here look I don't think this actually is
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an ambulance that is still active I
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think it's a personal vehicle right now
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but it's like an old classic ambulance
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let's take a look at that all right it's
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about 10 minutes to four right now
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traffic's pretty bad on the freeway so
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the GPS
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has us taken some surface streets I'm on
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Highland a few miles from the boulevard
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it's definitely moving pretty slow but
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almost to the freeway from here see
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Hollywood and Highland right up there
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there's the church
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this track Back to the Future church and
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there's the
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big pillar looking building right on the
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corner of Hollywood and Highland so
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close she can almost taste it
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this traffic's not moving now
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slow moving past Hollywood High here
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a lot of different celebrities went to
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the class in there including John Ritter
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his murals on the other side though you
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can't see look at the sun starting to
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kind of almost set behind the back of
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the building itself
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it's like Carol Burnett went there also
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Bruce Lee
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all right progressed up past the
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Boulevard and now way to get this light
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the better view of the church here
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379 for regular here oh
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five seven you're right five seven I was
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saying 379. 579 here two dollars more
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two dollars more than Florida
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mom and I were just noticing this very
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unique looking tree here
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the thing is I've never noticed that
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tree before and all the time I lived
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here or where it came through this area
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I've never noticed that tree
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the parking structure now I go check in
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head to the room
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I think we're gonna go to CityWalk go to
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Bubba Gump's for dinner
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here in a little bit we gotta check in
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first though
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all right we're in the room we have the
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lights off the TV
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is on with the volumes down
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and they got the Hollywood Sign there
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the and they got the two beds in here
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and see how the view is looking
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open this up
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hello coffee maker a little ice tray
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probably won't be using the ice but
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got the coffee
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facilities over here
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the shower
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you see The View
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the universal is right there see the
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castle
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right there in the middle of the castle
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that's Wizarding World
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and then there's the archway with the
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red carpet and how do we walk over there
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there's a bridge right here see that
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bridge
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that's the bridge you walk across that
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and then City walks right over there
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player
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so you see the globe down there
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and the red carpet
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right past that is City walk and then
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Bubba gumps is just see that little tail
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fin looks like a shark fin but it's a
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surfboard end yes Bubba gumps past that
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if you just keep walking
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that's where all the restaurants
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CityWalk and all that is
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a photo of the observatory downtown LA
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as well but we're going to go down and
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get food but they do have room service
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as well you could dive in or you can go
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down
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and get road service the breakfast is 95
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dollars ninety five dollars
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for the brunch or what it is they gave
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us this too there's a little different
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is Cafe Sierra that has breakfast
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in the morning there's a buffet the
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breakfast buffet is 34 a person
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a little breakfast buffet
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or 24 for a continental but if you want
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like
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today
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are you going to eat I'm not gonna eat
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breakfast I really ever eat breakfast
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but I'm gonna eat dinner tonight when we
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go down there
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there's also a place called
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no no I'm gonna eat dinner down at
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CityWalk we go to CityWalk
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there's also a pool bar there's also a
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Coffee corner with Starbucks so it's a
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room service okay I've never actually
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had the breakfast here
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I've always just uh I hardly ever eat
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breakfast unless it was like a special
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occasion
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but I never never do the breakfast if I
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should have never eaten any of the
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restaurants here I have done room
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service
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um months ago when I was staying here I
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did that but I've never never done that
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but we're gonna go down mom was saying
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she wanted to get Bubba Gump we were at
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the pier there's a bubble gum to the
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pier and she was like oh we should go to
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bubble gums at CityWalk because when her
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and my dad came to visit me years ago I
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lived in Hollywood I think 2017-ish
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we all went to the bubble gums my dad's
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actually not going to be on this trip he
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has some other stuff going on so he
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wasn't able to make it
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I thought my mom's going to be with me
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for a little over two weeks starting
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today and going through early October I
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think that's where the Minion ride is
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and then you got the mini on top of it
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it's not a roller coaster Let's uh like
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a virtual type thing you sit in a chair
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and you watch a screen like a 3D screen
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kind of thing
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now I have not taken the shuttle
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normally it shows up every 10 to 15
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minutes but I guess because it's a
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little busy in high demand I said every
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25 to 30 minutes but ask the concierge
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guy he says gonna be here in about five
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or six minutes so we are waiting over
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here and it's kind of neat I have never
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taken the shuttle normally I would just
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walk across but with my mom here she
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wants to take the shuttle so we're going
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to try something different so I get to
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try the shuttle over to it's you know
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it'll be kind of neat to go take that
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over there just to see how convenient or
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unconvenient I guess it's probably
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pretty convenient it's going to drop us
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off at the front of CityWalk oh perfect
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timing there it rolls in right now the
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Universal City service shuttle servicing
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Universal Studios Hollywood City walk
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and hotels including
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this one
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all right so on the way over it was just
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basically a you know just a basically a
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little shuttle over what didn't really
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took probably about two or three minutes
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definitely faster than walking over but
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wasn't too bad it was we were probably
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one of about 12 people on the shuttle
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getting over to the front it dropped you
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off at CityWalk kind of right next to
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like the baseball store and the the uh
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clothing store that's right here halfway
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down City walk and then from there
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walked up towards Bubba gumps where you
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could see the big there you have the the
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sign the spinning sign you have the
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dragon and then off in the distance or
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hanging kind of dangling there for many
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many years King Kong is there as well I
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ended up having the gumbo and not only
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the gumbo but I also had the shrimp
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scampi and Mom ended up having the
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grilled salmon and broccoli and rice and
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some other things as well pretty good I
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always like Bubba gumps I was kind of
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curious how many Bubba gumps there were
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and I had to look it up and there was
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wasn't as many as the house like in the
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third 30s I think it was in the 30s give
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or take I was expecting to be more than
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that but there's a lot of bubble gums
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across
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across the country and also in Hawaii
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as well I didn't realize there was some
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over there
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which is kind of neat and instead of
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taking the shuttle back over we decided
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to walk back over and you got the
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glistening of the sunset off in the
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distance so we're gonna walk around
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down the hill and then back up and
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around to the hotel and while we were
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leaving the server
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showed me a photo so I guess like a few
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months ago Gary Sinise played Lieutenant
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Dan actually was in there eating and he
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was lucky enough to serve Lieutenant Dan
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inside of Bubba gumps how cool is that
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the view of the valley off in the
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distance
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it goes to the very bottom of the hill
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so I think some people park down there
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on Lankershim
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and they go up and down it also could be
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team members but I'm not really sure
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mom had to go in the store and get a
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it's a little colder at night here than
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it is in Florida yes
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so you had to buy a you had to buy a
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hoodie
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look at that Frankenstein barking over
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this
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there's a parking lot on the other side
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called Jurassic parking
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now in the past there was always a
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gazebo right here at the top of these
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three steps
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they've removed the Gazebo for whatever
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reason
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and this is the little fish do not feed
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the fish
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thank you
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there's the fish right over here called
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the koi
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swimming around in here
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very good plus four sometimes you see
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turtles in here too
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if it was it would come up for air
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everything's huge
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I'm gonna go check out the pool real
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quick
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you need to see where the pool area is
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in case
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at some point while we're here you want
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to hop in the pool
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probably a little too cool to hop in
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there right now
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I will be in there
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Sheridan next next door sun setting
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we gotta go back up to the room we get a
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pretty good view from out the window too
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I always like to get the Theme Park View
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room it's kind of neat to see out into
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the valley I don't know something about
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it I really like
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on the way out to the pool they got
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these little machines here the CVS
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machine
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if you need any last minute toiletries
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and whatnot
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we got all kind of different items here
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and they also have a high store you
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forgot any headphones or anything like
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that
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and then outside is the pool
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this is the outside area they got some
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corn hole over here you got the Tiki Bar
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Aloha cornhole game we got the corn hole
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there you got the guitar on this one
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they also have ping pong they got ping
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pong table
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these are probably to rent out because
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they're kind of stanchioned and roped
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off but I guess all the other ones over
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there they could sit out but these might
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be like a separate charge during the day
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but I can't imagine like this time of
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the year it being like scorching hot out
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where the pool is going to be really
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really packed
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but these these over here you could sit
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out as well get out of there
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get out of the shade or get out of the
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sun if you want I don't really like
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being in the sun tube I could be this
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one for a few minutes but I can't sit
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out in it all day long all right back in
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the room
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looking out over the valley at night
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I've noticed it or I've learned if you
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heat the lights on in the room there's
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so much of a glare you can't really see
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out the window in like too much of a
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glare when you're trying to film out the
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window so it's better
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turn the lights off at night you get a
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really good view so you can see where we
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were down there
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all the lights lit up
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there's the bridge we walked across
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there's the big minion eye the
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All-Seeing Eye
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well I don't have fireworks
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if I don't do fireworks like they do
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fireworks on New Year's Eve but they
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don't do them like Disney does on a
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nightly basis
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the park closes at six
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and
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it's not until later in the season that
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Halloween Horror Nights starts on a
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Thursday so today's Wednesday as I'm
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recording this so nothing's really
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happening in there right now
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the globe
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City Walk
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all right I'll see you in the next video
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Vlog also
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down City walk here
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if it late at night like you have to get
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up late at night
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almost all the lights are off except for
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one right there in the middle that one's
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always on
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24 7.
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the Vlog is over