Bubba Gump Shrimp Co at Anaheim GardenWalk - Southern California Food Review / My Forrest Gump Book
A visit to Bubba Gump Shrimp Co at the Anaheim GardenWalk in California .
My Forrest Gump Filming Location Adventure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwlYtACzdb4&t=3s
Transcript
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welcome everyone yet in the whoo here
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today number 26 of this current series
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where I focus on Southern California
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eateries this particular establishment
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started up in Monterey that northern
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part of the state but has branched out
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dramatically and there's one over an
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anti I'll get on my bike and head over
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there but I didn't you to join me shall
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you loading up my regular accessories
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into my backpack or book bag for today
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status cuz I'm bringing along that
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composition notebook which houses some
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information from a project I did a
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couple years ago
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beautiful flowers through here they're
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blooming
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here on Katella Ave going directly
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through the line of palm trees looks
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like some of the rental car businesses
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are opening back up goes the city bus
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things are starting to start to come
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back good to see
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I'm just going right up here to the next
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block I don't really need to have this
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on but when I go into order I like to
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wear it and then when I either take it
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off obviously ask for now all this still
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walked off up ahead is the Anaheim
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Garden Walk more or less an outdoor mall
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area a lot of shops in there have
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reopened and restaurants in fact where
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I'm heading is right there Bubba Gump
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shrimp company I have to go up to the
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next little turn in and then loop back
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welcome back although now that I'm
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seeing it I might have this I may be a
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mess even though it says now open I
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don't think they are it's a little bit
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of a confusing distraction not having
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any guests out front but they they are
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open I just saw hope people walk in you
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got to love this those famous shoes down
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there the feather on the forefront of
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the sneakers the box of chocolates and
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forests little suitcase check this out I
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just felt like running that was one of
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his statements and this one has the
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Anaheim location written right there on
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the bottom of the t-shirt as well as a
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couple other famous sayings okay I got
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to do it I got to put my I got to put my
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feet and those sneakers these look like
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comfortable shoes guess if I didn't want
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to run in them I could ride my bike
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here's another one that has the local
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location Anaheim on it notice it doesn't
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have the brand of the soda pop that was
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stated in the film
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just kind of a Bubba Gump shrimp company
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soda pop there is a $10 menu I think
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that's going to be my option something
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from the 10 buck menu
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get to be very patient I've noticed
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what's going out doing this takeout
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series that sometimes places our short
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staff they're just getting back into
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things this is no exception there is
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only one waitress server and one cook so
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I said take your time I'm not in a rush
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but just keep that in mind if you're
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going out and about you know modern-day
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engraved on the side of the wall there
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the shrimp boat see it kind of itched
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into the well it's not really Ashton its
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kind of protruding outward there's a
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better term
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it's good lemonade
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my food has arrived that cars going car
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was going very fast still have not
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invested in a cup holder from this point
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I'm gonna ride over to a familiar spot
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on the back side of those buildings
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kind of getting the hang of this stuff
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holding the camera in one hand and then
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between my thumb one of my fingers the
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beverage and then on the other fingers
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the dangling
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always so well not always but it's
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peaceful back in here wonder if my
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secret spot has been procured I'm still
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allowed to sit over there there is a
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security guard on a Segway down there
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and some maintenance workers
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I'm gonna try it some nice shaded area
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and this is what we're dealing with two
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packages one is the $10 special which
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I'm thinking if this is a little heavier
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so that's probably a $10 special and
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this could possibly be a skewer oh yeah
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so here is the skewer which I got as an
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appetizer to go along with oh yeah I've
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got some shrimp that's a lemon down in
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there remember all the old remember all
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the old seafood commercials where you
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take the limit I know I just watch those
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when I was younger and say yeah what a
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job the lemon squeezer that just
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squeezes the lemon out all over well all
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over the seafood and the shrimp so we
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got fries ten fried shrimp I believe and
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then this skewer and some slaw right
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down there and the appropriate dipping
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sauces all of a sudden the fountain back
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there got really quiet it might be going
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through a lull skewer is on to not just
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one stick the two sticks one two three
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six six shrimp prepared a little
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different these are grilled
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I need some dipping sauce granted you
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have tartar hmm harder not so much
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which I have been known to do the Tartar
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cool I almost took almost a double dip
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there with the shrimp shrimp äj--
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healthy amount of tartar that's too much
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tartar
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I go through phases and I cannot be the
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only one that does this where sometimes
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I'm not in the mood to pull crunchy tail
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to consume it and other times I am I'm
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not opposed to it
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that is good I haven't had shrimp in a
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while
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Bubba Gump's and myself have a little
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bit of a history a little bit of a
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nostalgia I get fond feelings inside
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when I think about think about going
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there because I did the filming location
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as a Forrest Gump about two years ago
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had traveled all the way across the
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country to document them over the course
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of two weeks about a month of
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pre-planning two weeks and then about a
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week of editing so a couple months of my
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life was dedicated to doing that project
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keep waiting for someone to tell me to
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move
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and before I departed across the country
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flying to the East Coast renting a car
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starting in full went to Florida went
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from Florida visited my parents for a
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little bit rented a car drove up to
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Georgia South Carolina from South
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Carolina to Washington DC got all the
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different scenes from the movie nearly
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everyone saved for two maybe three -
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that I didn't get were grandfather
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mountain in North Carolina because it
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was wintertime I'm trying to get over
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there and traversing the icy roads just
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did not fit in with all of the plane
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that the the constant traveling and
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driving across the country and I figured
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just for that one second shot well
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actually for like a 10 second shot I was
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it was is actually it it weighed on me
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difficult to not go there in the
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wintertime and the blizzards of that
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mountain and then also up in Maine
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there's a lighthouse scene where it
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wasn't even him it was an extra but
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least some even say it was his brother
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running for him I don't know if that's
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been confirmed but it was you know from
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the back of forest running up to the
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lighthouse turning around turning around
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and coming back and then the next shot
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or in that same montage is Santa Monica
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Pier so those were the two I didn't get
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all take the book out and show you kind
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of the regiment I had and kind of how I
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do things
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it was at a point in my youtube career
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that I took a break from these daily
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vlogs I keep neglecting the slaw
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and wanted to do a project that I could
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look back on with fondness and think
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they finished shooing this right look
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back with fondness later in my life
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inside I did that I accomplished
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something that only a select few would
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even dream of doing would even dare to
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do to take all that time and travel and
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expenses take a loss monetarily
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take a loss money-wise to just put it
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out there hotel rooms rental cars
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flights just have something that's gonna
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stand the test of time that's what I did
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and it's etched down here in this
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booklet well at least the that travels I
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did which is why I uploaded it over onto
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the Adam the Wu channel instead of this
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one because he doesn't take a day
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anything that can be filmed and edited
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in one day goes on here that's how I do
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thanks so I put it in in order of how
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the film goes so I made a listing of
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every scene throughout the course of the
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entire movie by owning the blu-ray I
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watched it for a month straight every
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night so probably 25 or 30 night nights
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in a row
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I had this pad other pieces of paper
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that I have scrapped and etched down
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little notes looking for everything in
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the background to pinpoint where all the
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spots were starting with number one the
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first page has all the way down to
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number five jumping all over all over
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the board from the movie order not
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necessarily the travel order see
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Savannah and then varnville South
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Carolina it just kind of goes all over
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the place onto the next page you see the
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little bridge the corner Ginny's dad's
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house the grandma's trailer the practice
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field
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just there's a couple actually this is
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another one I did not
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the Alabama Stadium was all the way up
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in Monterey Park I did nice so that was
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a third one the three the last of the
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three spots that I did not get from all
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of them but there were allow you to see
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just over the first three pages 15 and
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then I I kind of crossed and Exce them
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out as I went
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Los Angeles DC route 66 a freeway ramp
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on route 66 Arizona Hollywood Boulevard
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Washington DC
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it's to bringing back some memories look
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at it all that see we're already into
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3738 all the way down to 42 locations
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and not even done 43 44 all the way down
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to 47 locations
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Wow there's another other little notes
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that I left looking back on him and
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really know what all these were but they
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were just different scenes
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it's good to keep a journal and at least
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like have have a game plan it's key to
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have a game plan I would like to do
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another task similar to that and the
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future during that I was not doing any
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of the daily vlogs I wasn't getting
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b-roll while I was out and about you
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know filming other things for the daily
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Channel and then putting together a
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montage for that video or national
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lampoon's vacation video which I did a
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month prior to that did one month on the
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road with editing and research for
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national anthems vacation and then the
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next month for scope
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I would like to do another one of those
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I have a few more ideas but I don't for
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me the way my mind works I have to have
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tunnel vision I have to go all in on a
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project so just you know getting some
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pickup shots here and there and throwing
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together something it's just not my
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style I put everything into that set
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project it was really intense it might
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have taken a little more than the time
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it took me to do it it might have taken
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off my life as far as stress go but I'm
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happy I did it and I have something to
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look back on
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bringing up the Bubba Gump's the slow I
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don't know the slaw
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as long as okay I wouldn't say the swamp
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for my opinion the slaw is not great
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it seems like it's missing something I'm
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used to it's not bad it's not the best
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law I've ever had
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shrimp forget tipping it here in this
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sauce drawing a blanket with this sauce
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look old it's gonna come to me at some
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point
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cocktail sauce cocktail sauce that's
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what it is
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could be using ketchup but dipping this
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frying how to fry in a while couple
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weeks maybe maybe more than that I
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usually try to go sans fries no fries
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I'm using the the old tartar sauce as a
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dipping mechanism good fries
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these are really good fries I like the
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seasoning on them
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before I left on that journey to do the
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locations of Forrest Gump hey ate at a
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Bubblegum's I think the day before maybe
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the day's the day before two days before
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it was one of the last meals I had
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before hitting the road before hopping
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on the plane going out to the East Coast
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getting a car driving up the East Coast
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to get all those spots and flying back
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out here to the Los Angeles area renting
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another car driving all the way out to
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Monument Valley to get the shots where
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I'm kind of tired
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gonna go home now those spots and a few
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miles from there was another scene in
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the film when he's talking about Jenny
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and his love for her and there is the
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Sun is either rising or setting I can't
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remember which but if the Sun is right
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there on the horizon and he's kind of
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running this way and you see it over
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there how he would it's like very
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emotional to even think about because
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he's I'm just I'm paraphrasing but he
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mentions how when he was out there all
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alone by his self running in the middle
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of the desert that he would think about
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her and I found that spot and it's only
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a brief snippet in the final video
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there's a lot of snippets that create
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that whole full-length video
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but when I when I got that scene when I
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shot that scene on the camera I just
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kind of stood there got a little misty
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eyed the very heart fell for me to to be
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there and thanked that no one really has
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ever taken the time to find this mater
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it's like movies touch you in that way
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it was a journey for me to do that you
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know I dedicated a couple months of my
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life
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as far as the research goes barking on
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that journey and that was the most
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emotional time of that truck standing
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there out in the desert just thinking
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about a fictional character of forests
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and Jenny
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see us listed here is number 52 out of
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all the all the spots beautiful sunset
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at Monument Valley u.s. 163 just up a
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few miles from Forrest Gump point which
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is where you stopped running so if
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you're ever out there and you get that
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photo a lot people stop and get the
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picture of Forrest Gump point go a few
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miles further and try to match up where
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that sunset was it's not far from there
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I'm not gonna eat all these fries I ate
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a couple of them but I will finish the
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shrimp rest assured
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I lemonade good thing I finished it the
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